Japan is Poisoning Other Countries By Burning Highly-Radioactive Debris

[petergriffin]

Japan is Poisoning Other Countries By Burning Highly-Radioactive Debris

[realityhack]

Er... that's somewhat silly.

[doodab]

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[TimberWolf]

Hard to quantify what danger

100,000 Becquerel of radioactive caesium are found per kilogram

poses, but a banana allegedly has 130 Bq/kg. So 100,000 Bq "radioactive waste" / kg is like 770 bananas / kg on this totally bananas scale. And you'd presumably have to ingest all the burnt ashes to compare to bananas too.

On the other hand not all radiation is not the same, but it's food for thought.

Caesium-137 has a half life of 30 years which makes it a bit dodgy. Radioactive iodine-131 (half life 8 days) will have petered out by now and we're on to the longer lived radioactive isotopes. Strontium-90 and Technetium-99 will be the next common isotopes seen after those events, after Ceasium-137, and the most dangerous ones to be concerned about AFAIK.

Banana equivalent dose - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I'm inclined to think it's nothing to be concerned about, but don't stand downwind anyway.

[EternalOptimist]

are you saying that bananas are food for thought ?

I'll take two then.
and a kebab

and definately dont stand downwind

[wim121]

The Japs have been poisoning other cultures for decades, infecting the world with hatred, violence and paedophilia.

Any export, from their barbarous gameshows, to shoddy cars, to radioactive poison are all just as unwelcome in decent society.

[BrilloPad]

Japan is Poisoning Other Countries By Burning Highly-Radioactive Debris

But the UK is unaffected so thats okay then.

[xoggoth]

But the UK is unaffected so thats okay then.

They won't let an opportunity like this pass. We have blue topped bins for recycling, grey topped bins for kitchen waste, green topped bins for garden waste. Soon we will get red topped bins for waste with 100,000 becquerels of radioactive cesium or over.