Comments on: Radiation leak was “no more harmful than a routine chest X-ray”

By: James

James — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 02:21:16 +0000

http://www.japanprobe.com/?page_id=1242 for more details.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 02:08:49 +0000

It’s never been denied. James has stated many times that he deletes comments that are just full of hate and have no discussion value whatsoever. He doesn’t, however, delete comments that simply disagree with his opinion.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 02:06:57 +0000

So, it wasn’t life-threatening, just irresponsible.

This part struck me as odd:

“A final report given by the U.S. Embassy in Japan to the Foreign Ministry said the incident was the first of its kind in the more than 50 years that the U.S. Navy has operated nuclear reactors…”

Obviously there were no incidents reported to Japanese authorities in those 50 years, so the Japanese MOFA already has this information. Why include that in the report?

By: James

James — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 02:00:08 +0000

An anti-American comment of questionable discussion value was removed (“America lies about everything”), and VonSkippy’s comment happened to a be response to it, so it was lost as well.

By: Darien Shields

Darien Shields — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:37:01 +0000

Is that really a negligible amount? I got my head X-Rayed for some dental work once, and I was told that here in the UK we have to keep records of how many times someone’s been X-Rayed or been in contact with radioactive materials so that we can keep it at a safe level (so if you’d already been X-Rayed 5 times in a year they wouldn’t give you another one unless it was important).

Is it different elsewhere…?

By: sputnik

sputnik — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:05:42 +0000

Yea, think of it as a freebie.

By: onceuponatime

onceuponatime — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:53:31 +0000

and we all know how much they love chest x-rays in this country. what`s another one?