We've all seen the scenes of devastation in Japan. It is heartbreaking and the Japanese people will recover but as a nation they've taken a serious blow. So what do the so-called cable news outlets focus on. Oh that's right yeah Japan's radiation is going to destroy the world, its pouring onto Californian beaches, polluting our air and water and food and - well actually its not. There is no doubt that miniscule amounts of radiation have been detected in rainwater in CO and ID but the emphasis here is on the word 'miniscule' and to the cries of 'its three mile island all over again'. Here's a link to the nuclear regulatory commission report
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/3mile-isle.html
Read even the first paragraph and you'll find that no one died
But that isn't a story, that doesn't scare you that doesn't make you watch cable TV. I saw a clip of a CNBC show host arguing with the 'nuclear expert' insisting that he was wrong and she was right.
And here, Look at this link read the screaming headline and then the body of the article
http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/03/28/radiation.us/
So feel free to panic but before you spread what you just heard on CNN or MSNBC or that weird looking Beck person, or scary Nancy, or even on-the-spot Anderson's show take a deep breath and go in search of some facts.
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/03/what-the-media-doesnt-get-about-meltdowns/72418/
http://gizmodo.com/#!5782590/how-does-radiation-travel-and-what-kinds-of-damage-can-it-do
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