No.<div><br></div><div>(1) The initial radiation counts were wrong, have been corrected, and workers have moved back into the plant.</div><div><br></div><div>(2) Even if they were correct, the problem at Chernobyl was that the graphite reaction medium caught fire, spreading a plume of radioactive smoke. Water is the reaction medium here, and doesn't spread radiation as easily. </div>
<div><br></div><div>(3) Even if they were correct and the reaction medium was conducive to spreading radiation, the plume would be incredibly diffuse before it reached the west coast. </div><div><br></div><div>(4) Even if the readings were correct, the reaction medium was conducive to spreading radiation, and plume was not diffuse, the main compounds that are at issue -- cesium and iodine -- would have run through a dozen half lives before they reached us, and would be barely radioactive. </div>
<div><br></div><div>There's no way the radiation is getting anywhere near us.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Art Deco <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:deco@moscow.com">deco@moscow.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Radiation levels at Japanese nuclear plant 100,000 times above normal
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PM<br>----------------------------------------<br><br>Leaked water
from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant showed the highest radiation
readings yet, compounding the risks for the hundreds of workers trying to
repair the facility’s cooling system. Seventeen workers have been exposed
to high levels of radiation, and airborne radioactivity in the unit 2
building remained so high that a worker there would reach his yearly
occupational exposure limit in 15 minutes.<br><br><a href="http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/7CWL7Z/YHOF1R/5V9MQT/OA0KHS/T5F5O/82/h" target="_blank">http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/7CWL7Z/YHOF1R/5V9MQT/OA0KHS/T5F5O/82/h</a><br>
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