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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
Yes, but what is being released frm Fukushima and what was released by Chrenobyl are significantly different. The majority of radioactive contaminants from Fukushima will decay within two years, whereas much of Chernobyl's release have half-lives between 20-1,000 years. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if in the long arc, the BP oil spill in the gulf will have more of a global impact than the Fukushima disaster. Radiation is part of life, the toxicity of petrochemicals, even in their pure/natural state, is much more severe.
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Doesn't most of the oil decay within a certain period of time?
The wikipedia makes it like Fukushima was fine, nothing to see here move along, but I do note "In a leaked TEPCO report dated June 2011, it was revealed that plutonium-238, −239, −240, and −241 were released "to the air" from the site during the first 100 hours after the earthquake, the total amount of plutonium said to be 120 billion becquerels (120 GBq) — perhaps as much as 50 grams" - we don't really know what happened at either environmental disaster, the truth was suppressed.
I'm going to go with my instincts, that tell me and a nuclear plant pumping out radiation for 2 years+ is just not a good thing. I take your point about half life of iodide and cesium. Supposedly, they can't eve located the uranium fuel it has melted so far down into the bedrock.