Do Japan's nuclear power plants pose a threat to the UK?

[Guest sibon]

In your link they are talking about 10x background radiation, what’s the largest reading you have ever read, have you been to places like Edinburgh castle, isn’t that build on a granite outcrop.

 

You've no need to go to Edinburgh to encounter high radon levels.

 

The Peak District will do nicely.

[staninoodle]

Can you provide a link to back that up?

 

There was a german website carried a link,with photos of welsh and scottish hills,i saw the pictures and subsequent interviews.....funnily enough you can no longer acsess that information.

All the lambs were born still,and quite a few of thier adults died.

Believing in freedom of informations a little like believing in fairies.

The type of reactor built at Chernobyl,cant be built here,or so the official line says.

The truth is,theres many reactors around the world of that type,and they most defiantely do build them.

Japan has covered up MANY mistakes and accidents,this is why thier asking for us experts,who dealt with the long island meltdown long before chernobyl.

[DiDoDoDatDoe]

I sometimes wonder how many people live under the illusion that Sheffield is a radiation-free zone. I imagine they'd be scared witless if someone put a Geiger counter in their front room and they could hear how much noise it makes.

Yes I think there has been some speculation that the US has been spraying us with stuff for years in some sort of experiment, com trails I believe they are called.

 

Anyhow I would not put it past them, especially when that Bush fellow was in power because he did not give a hoot about anyone other than if they could help him amass his personal fortune or not.

 

I bet we are all breathing in depleted uranium or something.

[callippo]

glad to see the sheffield forum ignoramuses are alive and kicking - any excuse to bash the US, even if it's as spurious an excuse as this.

 

even the Koreans, Chinese (mainland and Taiwanese) and Filipinos, Japan's closest neighbours, aren't especially bothered about what's happening with Japan's nuclear plants. They're concerned, naturally enough, but not bricking it. Would you care to explain why it ought to be a pressing problem for a nation state that's an island situated off of western Europe, 8,000 miles away?

[DiDoDoDatDoe]

Are you saying that theres nothing in this com trails stuff then ?

 

From your post It just sounds like your peeved someone mentioned the US.

[HeadingNorth]

Yes I think there has been some speculation that the US has been spraying us with stuff for years in some sort of experiment, com trails I believe they are called.

 

No need for that, nor was I referring to it. The ground we live on contains radioactive material. The ground everywhere on the planet contains radioactive material, and always has done since the Earth was first formed. The air you breathe contains radioactive carbon, formed by cosmic rays; again, it always has done.

[upinwath]

Given that the Chernobyl melt down affected much of europe,with dead sheep found on hills in the uk,during the aftermath of that disaster,how real is the threat to us?

 

Please supply a link to the dead UK sheep.

I think you're a liar.

[Cyclone]

Thats about as far from the truth as you can get.

Ever woke up to find sand on your windows as you start your car?

Somtimes that sands from the sahara desert.

Where at the mercy of the winds,with almost ALL nuclear power stations now on high alert in japan,the likelihood of further explosions is high,the problem bieng core temps cant be cooled without electricity,and japan is heavily reliant on nuclear power,specialist gels are bieng flown over from the USA,to try and prevent meltdown on core reactors,venting steam occasionally causes explosions,exposing the reactive core to the atmosphere.

Radioactive particals are like dust,and travel many hundreds,even thousands of miles through the atmosphere,even once settled they can be transported via strong winds,and remain active and dangerous for many THOUSANDS of years.

Have a look at Chernobyl,nothing lives there,the birds that do carry tumours via thier young,if thier not born deformed.

I feel for the people living thier,i just hope were fortunate,and the wind makes it another countries problem.

 

Chernobyl is far from having nothing live there. It has a thriving ecosystem. The average lifespan of the animals is shorter, but it seems to have benefited massively from having humans excluded from the area for 20 years.

And I don't remember any sheep being reported dead after the Chernobyl disaster...

[donkey]

The vast majority of information concerning nuclear power comes from scientists in the employ of the nuclear industry, including what we are now hearing about these reactors in Japan. The extent of the risk is certainly going to be played down. Therefore, the true extent of the toxicity and the area it will effect is anybody's guess. It seems unlikely it will get to Europe in any significant amounts.

 

As I understand it, the worst risk is not atmospheric pollution, but a meltdown, which would contaminate ground water supplies over a potentially vast area.

[JFKvsNixon]

You've no need to go to Edinburgh to encounter high radon levels.

 

The Peak District will do nicely.

 

When I was used to live in Devon many years ago, there was talk of radon gas detectors being given to houses with cellars such was worry of the background levels of radiation.