Nuclear fallout from Japan

Thanks for the links...I have been accused of being an alarmist and was beginning to wonder if anyone else was interested in watching the situation

Being an alarmist just keeps you alive in a nuclear event. The people's opinion has been dulled by way too much publicity from the nuclear companies calling it "safe and green". We'll see it's anything but in the next few weeks for the poor Japanese people.

I would just say someone who has protest uranium prospectors, its a dam shame this is going down in japan, its so very very sad. and we can only hope they get there shit together and stop the nuclear leeks and all the worlds people start acting like Germany and put an end to this uranium nuclear madness.

I was in grade school during the Cuban missle crisis and the last huge above ground atomic tests. At that time it was generally well understood about the dangers of radioactive fallout (early 60s). Milk consumption was curtailed for 90 days until the most active (strontium and cesium) particles had decayed. Why? Because the fallout fell on the grass and the cows ate the grass, kids drank the milk. There is no such concern today. Microscopic hot particles (parts of the fuel rods) from Fukushima were distributed throughout the northen hemispere from the explosion of the rods made from recycled Russian warheads. The hottest stuff available. The last I heard before the information clampdown was this. In the cubic volume of air a person breathes in one day, the hot particle concentrations were: Tokyo 17, Seattle 10, east coast 5. This means there was little dilution during distribution. Distribution charts at the time showed higher concentrations swirling about the Rocky mountains in Canada vs Seattle so at least 10 hot particles could be drawn by breath per day in western Canada during the worst of the crisis. Is the crisis over yet? The problem is that information regarding the actual earthly contamination is being restricted now a days. The difference between then and now is something was done before and now they just don't tell us. If anyone has a link to real time radiation distribution patterns and types of atomic particles, I would appreciate the link. I am a realist, not an alarmist and have lived through the nuclear age (all types)so far. My generation called the nuclear options the "unthinkable option"and this included nuclear power but protests have failed to stop it. I fear the younger generation, having never witnessed it, are beginning to think this is an option. It never was and never will be. The nearest natural nuclear plant is 93 million miles away...perfect. One final historical note. How did they persuade the people at the time to go with nuclear power? They promised that they would produce electricity so cheap, they wouldn't need meters. Who would vote against that? Some things alas, have not changed.