Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Was Evacuating Fukushima a Mistake?" video.

Kind of a tricky question. If you're downwind you're getting fallout, but the area around the plant was cleaned up so it might actually be safer there. The issue would be construction or people who want to have their small farms/gardens because digging would resurface contaminants that were buried back then.
7
The Fukushima meltdown wouldn't affect you just standing a few hundred meters from the plant building. The Fukushima radiation releases were gas and water. The water was dilluted into the Pacific ocean, and gas was released into the air.
3
I remember photos of the supposed mutations in a school textbook. Turned out those were just pictures of kids with malformations, with no relation to Chernobyl.
3
The sand? Most Fukushima releases were gas and water. Not solid chunks and dust like Chernobyl.
2
That doesn't even make sense. Those in the fallout plume were not evacuated anyway, and couldn't. You can't just say "yeah anyone within 4000km of the disaster area? You go live elsewhere. Ask New Zealand or Argentina to take you in or whatever". This is about the evacuation radius, the radius is based on distance from the event location, not where the plume goes.
2
The "reactor explosions" were hydrogen build up in the roof area of the plant. The actual reactor was fine, the roof of the building was blown off. H2 is pretty violent when it goes off. But it's more of a deflagration than detonation.
2
The thing with blaming the Soviet Union is that it ended in 1991. We kept studying the rates of radiation-related disease for the following decades.
2
Not happening. You will get nuclear and you will be happy.
1
The Soviet Union ended in 1991 and the region needed tons of aid and loans from the West. We kept tabs on the health effects of Chernobyl as not only it affected us but also because we had a vested interest in getting Ukraine to shut down the other Chernobyl reactors in exchange for more IMF loans. Because they needed the income from the energy exports they were forced to take loans from Russian banks... but I digress, the point is that they couldn't keep those secrets for too long.
1
Did you listen to the final minutes of the video?
1
@FaustoPego So thanks for admitting that you were wrong and did so out of willful ignorance, which is less excusable than just ignorance.
1
Evacuation orders extending too far and having no plans for returning people isn't the same thing as "Da comrade, you are bio-robot now, shovel this core graphite into the pit".
1
The common sense of "waaa neon green rods waaaa magic rays"?
1
Pripyat is safe to walk around but not return.
1
 @jamescarter3196 I'm okay with living near a nuclear plant. Hell, you can dig under my basement and put the waste there.
1
The plant survived the tsunami even with an insuficient sea wall. The problem was that the electric systems were put in the basement which meant everything flooded and cooling couldn't be restarted. I think this has to be reiterated. The location was perfectly fine.
1
If you were in a hospital and were in poor condition, or needed to be plugged to machines, moving in a rushed evacuation could make you worse or damage the machine you needed. When the Ukraine war began one of the gofundmes I donated to was a child who was plugged to a machine (which looked like it was Soviet, very 80s) and had to evacuate the country but during the travel the machine broke.
1
Get that published in a scientific paper, then. We can't do anything about evidence.
1
Thirty kilometers, though...?
1
Swine flu was simply not as transmissible. I didn't know anyone who had swine flu. Everyone I know caught SARS CoV-2 and most likely multiple times. You could not contain it. Studies done on flu contagion inside hospitals also show the simple surgical face masks have no effect, it would have to be N95 for everyone. We could not have handled. By the time we knew it was around it was already too late. Couldn't be contained. Australia is an island nation and by virtue of living in the Southern Hemisphere their seasons don't work like ours. While we had our peaks in transmission and mortality, they had summer which helps curb transmission. And when they had their winter, we had slower transmission in the Northern Hemisphere. Australia's "success" is due to geography. Nature itself stood in the way of the virus.
1
Reminder that lockdowns were based on the numbers from a professor who fudged his study and then was caught breaking lowdown rules so he could get nasty with his extramarital affair.
1
Fukushima releases were mostly gas or water that was dispersed by ocean currents, around Chernobyl you're not supposed to dig into the dirt because the radioactive material is buried. Russian soldiers were rushed to Belarus in early 2022 due to radiation poisoning because they dug trenches. You can't build housing or let kids play freely.
1
In the end Kyle doesn't say "stay at home lol", he explains we need to use more realistic thresholds, factor advanced age into equation, have contingency plans for the elderly, etc. Better safe than sorry but the evacuation also took lives so the "risking people's lives" applies to either choice. And how many lives were ruined to save every life at risk? Perhaps hundreds. Loss of home and livelihood is a guarentee while lives saved are shadowed by uncertainty.
1
Kyle skipped from plant worker deaths during the disaster to long term consequences. It was not the best way to deliver.
1
What do you mean containment vessels? Hydrogen "pooled" up in the roof and deflagrated. There was no containment, it was just the roof of the building trapping H2. It would have leaked out if it didn't catch fire.
1
There were like 15-20 cases of celebrities or "twitter personalities" touting the safety of the [PRODUCT] who dropped dead a few days after injection. You also want to look into that or it's just coincidence?
1