Oregon officials say no public health risk to state from Japan nuclear emergency

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2011/03/nuclear_disaster_what_is_the_risk_of_radiation_spreading_to_north_america.html

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Nuclear experts from Oregon and the U.S. responded Saturday to an explosion at a Japanese nuclear plant, saying there's no reason to believe large waves of radiation will cross the Pacific Ocean.

Air quality remained normal in Oregon, the Oregon Health Authority said Saturday afternoon. In a written statement, department officials said the blast posed no risk to the state.

The U.S. Energy Department also said Saturday there were no immediate impacts in the United States.

"There is no indication whatsoever that materials from the incidents in Japan have potential to have any meaningful effect on the U.S. homeland," Stephanie Mueller, the U.S. energy department's press secretary, wrote in an e-mail to The Oregonian.

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Well that makes me feel better. :eyes:

:patriot:

:shrug:

Go for it!

which happened yesterday.

if you have evidence there was a high release of radiation from that event, please present it.

Disconnect.

reactor container explosion?

right, you have no such evidence, because there is no such evidence.

snark away. it's all you have.

Mate.

in fact, it makes me sick.

Me: Alternate headline: "Everything's Peachy!"
You: "right, that's precisely what they said."That's why thay call it an alternate headline :think: You fucked up on "precisely."

Me: "No public health risk." Which, alternately, means "Everything's peachy."

You: "if you have evidence there was a high release of radiation from that event, please present it." Never suggested. Never said. Where'd you come up with "high release of radiation?" Straight out of the ass. Pure straw.

Please point out any intimation of "a high release of radiation" anywhere in my posts.

After you answer that we can move forward.

HannahBell is offering some perspective, and trying to be accurate. For some reason that is not to your liking.

I'm not sure why, but CHILL!

Lovely of you.

Great, I feel so much better.

Not.

WTF kind of rhetoric is that?

Did I miss the "We are now a homeland" announcement?

All they got was the DHS...but it seems to be enough. At least they don't call it the fatherland or motherland.

they measure anything but wind speed.

Molly needs to look at an atlas... or better yet, google a distance calculator.

Ugh.

:banghead:

that IS even worse! :eyes:

Thanks for the correction.

And she did let the quote go without correction, so...

Ah, well, ugh.

:hi:

I love a rainy night! How about you?

Not that we have much choice today.

;)

Actually, I don't mind the rain... it's part of what makes western Oregon so beautiful.

The Oregonian used to be a much better newspaper. It is sort of hit and miss these days. One day, you'll get important news (important to me, anyway) and the next day, not so much.

I'm actually more frustrated by the demise (in terms of true investigative reporting) of Willamette Week, which used to push the Oregonian to do better. Before about '95, the RegisterGuard also served this purpose, but... that's a long time ago. :(

:toast:

after a twenty year absence. Unfortunately, I can't get WW at the local 7-Eleven, which is about as far as I venture out most days.

The Cheap Eats issue is of value, if you're in the Portland MA, but, otherwise it's fairly redundant at this point.

:hi:

That's an obvious error that I missed and should have noticed.

I guess we have nothing to worry about in that rain, eh?

I can see from the satellite images that it came fromm the Gulf of Alaska, which receives winds from Japan.

But, but, but, I saw a graphic on the internet that showed it would take at least 10 days for their air to reach us.

Whew, it has only been 2 1/2 days. I still have time to leave here if the rain that will be coming down here for the next week doesn't contaminate us in the meantime. I really hope we can start to get more timely reliable information from the government in Japan about the extent of damage and the potential danger. I really don't trust corporate talking heads telling me it is fine.


Hands off my Social Security!
Hands off Latin America!


rdb

and has been since the reactor developed problems.
There is a monitor in Tumwater, WA - don't know if there are more.

they could pick up what they do not want picked up.

In eastern Oregon there is an old weapons depot that stores sarin gas. They keep monitor in case of gas escape. The monitors go off when local farmers apply organophosphate pesticides.

last night.
If you go to their website they discuss it in an article about health, though they do not mention the location of monitors. Sorry but my computer will not let me copy web addresses for some reason.

the Health Dept. to post the readings on their site.

'any meaningful effect'