David McNeill: Who's telling the truth on the Fukushima meltdown?

One of the more striking aspects of the local media coverage of Fukushima was the missing word — “meltdown.” It seemed reasonable to speculate, from March 11-15, that this is precisely what happened. One reason was the repeated news of cesium dispersed in the atmosphere on March 12. <...>

“There was a blackout in the media of the word,” he says in an interview this month with the Foreign Correspondents’ Club magazine, “No.1 Shimbun.” In April the head of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan, Takashi Sawada, also said that fuel rods in reactors 1 and 3 had melted. Yet, it took over two months for newspapers and TV here to begin using the word. <...>

We might also cite the example of MOX fuel and plutonium, a substance so toxic “that a teaspoon-sized cube of it would suffice to kill 10 million people,” in Reactor 3 at Fukushima.

Newspaper and TV reports in Japan essentially banished the words from their reports.

http://www.cnngo.com/tokyo/life/tell-me-about-it/david-mcneill-whos-telling-truth-fukushima-448215

representatives to take their own tests which presumably would be independent of commercial and/or political bias?

You can't see electrons and protons and such, so why are you so worried? They can't hurt you. It's good for the complexion. That green glow indicates health! It's just a momentary, temporary spike in cesium levels. Hardly even worth noticing. It'll totally disperse and the chances of any one individual getting a lethal exposure diminishes with every mile, continent, planetary orbit and galaxy you get away from it. Did you know the sun is bathing the earth in radiation all the time? So there!

Did I miss any?

going to the dentist
flying in an airplane
living in a brick house...

I dread to even speculate the outcome of this mess. None of it is however good.

...for cheap electricity today.

What I want to know is where can i get a cheap all encompassing radiation metering device?
I know better than to believe the government will protect me and tell me the truth.
Hell, they use bribes and the voting machines to get themselves elected. Right?

That's a myth.

That is a defeated myth. Just 60 years too late.
Like I say: A high price to pay. And we will pay.

There is no level of rational thought possible in this debate. The other side has already rendered reason a fatal blow.