Japan Nuclear Super-Disaster DEATH TOLL UPDATE

Number of Japanese People at Risk from Nuclear Super-Disaster: 127,433,494

Deaths at Unsafe Nuclear Power Plant: at least 0

Injuries at Unsafe Nuclear Power Plant: at least 0

Deaths from Deadly Nuclear Radiation: at least 0

Injuries from Deadly Nuclear Radiation: at least 0

Death Rate (Japan): 8.98 deaths per 1,000 population

Threat of Disastrous Reactor Core Meltdown: (CNN reporting) " ... David Lochbaum, director of the Nuclear Safety Project at the Union of Concerned Scientists, noted that fire and loss of power, both of which occurred at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, are the two most likely causes of meltdowns at nuclear facilities."

Release af deadly nuclear radiation (FOXNews reporting): "1200 liters of water", "100 drums containing low-level nuclear waste fell over during the quake, some of the lids open ... cobalt-60 and chromium-51 had been emitted into the atmosphere ..."

Release of deadly nuclear radiation (The Independent of London reporting): " ... there was no release of radioactivity or damage to the reactors ... "

TOTAL NUCLEAR SUPER-DISASTER DEATH TOLL: at least 0 or more

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is quoted as saying "Those involved should repent their actions."

An investigation is ongoing. The first floggings will take place later this month, and executions are scheduled for January of next year. Several executives are expected to take their own lives in a seppuku ceremony later this week.

Nuclear FACT: If a pound of plutonium was ground up into single molecules, there would be enough to contaminate every individual on the Earth, Mars, Nibiru, Vulcan, Chronos, Romulus, Barsoom, Tencton, Alpha Centauri 4, Planet X, and Betazed!

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IMPERIO! :o

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The entire world will feel the siege!!

Quick! Now! Duct tape yourself under your bed, wrap yourself in plastic
sheeting and nosh on those cans of tuna fish that are supposed to be
under your bed!!

insensitive or ignorant of the fact that there are thousands of Downwinders in the American West who have died and are still dying from cancer related illnesses resulting from the atomic bomb tests held at Nevada test site from the 1950's to the 70's.

My husband died of radiation poisoning in 1981. This was a hospital related incident and watching his body turn black still gives me nighmares. I had to relive the nightmare, again, when I saw photos of the Russian spy who was poisoned last year in England. It's a horrible way to die!

We sit around watching millions die every year from pollution, millions more die from heat, famine and drought, and whole ecosystems unwinding as species after species shuffle their sad way off into the history books.

You either go mad or start making crass jokes. Or both. But don't take it personally - We're only as insensitive as we need to be.

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But there are a couple things I'd like to point out:

• Your husband didn't die from a nuclear reactor power plant. I assume he died from a medical overdose or an accident in a laboratory, which are the only ways people have died from radiation sickness in the USA. And again, I sympathize for his suffering and your loss, but there is just no connection other than the word "radiation".
  
• The downwinders (which include my father and uncle) were exposed as a result of military weapons testing.
  
• The Russian spy poisoned with polonium has nothing to do with this at all. May his murderers receive the punishment they have earned by their malice and their cleverness.
  
• No one has a special moral claim on nuclear energy just because they or their loved ones have suffered in war- or medical-related accidents with radioactive material.
  
• My great-grandfather was a coal miner and died of black lung; I do not have special rights over coal energy. I was badly burned and injured in an explosion of vaporized ethanol in 1990; I do not have special rights over ethanol. I am obliged to make the case for or against their use with evidence and reason, not emotion and the memory of pain.
  
• I have been making light of the press hysteria over the damage at the Japanese reactors, which has eclipsed the reporting of the injuries and deaths from the earthquakes. Fox News has been especially lurid in its accounts. People have lost their loved ones -- how can the press be so cruel?

I am neither insensitive nor ignorant. I support nuclear energy because I oppose the destruction of the environment, and I oppose fear-mongering in general.

Where is the outrage over this blatant fear-mongering, anyway? The press remains stuporous.

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...the mainstream media's fear-based reporting that turns everything
into a crisis---until the true facts come in.

I fail to understand how you can ascertain that I am a "seasoned DU poster" who is "insensitive"
and "ignorant" about "thousands of Downwinders in the American West who have died and
are still dying from cancer...from the atomic bomb tests held in Nevada..."

The original post spotlighted how the media turns every story into an earth-shattering, "OmmyGod!!"
moment.

I was making sport of the 24-hour news cycle.

I was ostracizing the way the media hooks us in with fear and uses worst-case scenarios to
drum up ratings.

This CNN story could have been about a killer tornado that never was...or a suspicious package
that turned out to be a box of chocolate. That doesn't mean that I'm "ignorant" or "insensitive"
about those who die in tornadoes or due to bomb explosions, NOW DOES IT?

I was not---AND I DID NOT---make any comments about "Downwinders" "atomic bomb tests" "people who have
died from cancer" or "radiation poisoning". So I fail to see how you can comment on my "ignorance"
or my "insensitivity" on these subjects.

that the actual casualty rate on these reactor accidents remains zero, in spite of the fact that the reactors were subjected to mechanical stresses of twice their tolerance.

I believe that we should attribute every Japanese death from here to eternity on this accident, except of course the deaths we attribute to Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Rodan and Godzilla.