Japan Nuclear Meltdown Will Seriously Affect World Environment

Checking for radiation in Japan. Wouldn’t happen if a solar power plant is damaged.


Japan’s situation involving its damaged nuclear reactors is going from bad to worse, following Friday’s mega earthquake and subsequent tsunami tidal waves. Worries about this kind nightmarish scenario happening elsewhere, especially in the Middle East has been expressed in many media sources, including an article in the English version of Egypt’s Al Masry.

The environmental dangers of the radiation leakage from the Fukushima Diiachi nuclear plant following the explosion of one of its reactors could be very harmful to the world’s environment. The article quoted Greenpeace as saying that “Japan is in the middle of a nuclear crises with potentially devastating consequences.” But this you’d already know if you have been reading the news. American aid troops in the region are moving away from the nuclear plant after a plume of radiation was detected 100 miles from the reactor core.

Jan Berenek, International head of the NGO’s anti nuclear campaign was quoted as saying:

“The fact that the Fukushima nuclear power plant is leaking, or has been forced to deliberately release, contaminated gases from the reactor into the atmosphere means that all of the physical protection that was supposed to isolate radioactivity from the environment has failed. How many more warnings do people need to get before they understand that nuclear reactors are inherently hazardous?”

Nearly 200 people have been tested for exposure to radiation so far, and at least 3 have been diagnosed as having radiation sickness. Japan has been handing out iodine pills to counter radiation exposure.

The Fukushima Diiachi plant explosion may cause a complete melt down, that which occurred in the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986. Besides large scale evacuations from the area near the site of the damaged Japanese plants, doses of stable potassium iodine have been given to persons exposed to potentially deadly radiation. Stable Potassium Iodine helps protect the body from radioactive exposure by blocking the intake of radioactive material in the thyroid gland.

The fact that a Middle East news site is giving this event attention must mean something, especially with Egypt’s planning to build a nuclear power facility. These plans could now be put on hold following the ouster of President Mubarek. The nightmare of the Chernobyl nuclear plant meltdown, in which more than 6,000 cases of thyroid and other cancers were diagnosed in children afterwords only stresses the potential dangers of these plants, according to Dr. Manny Alveraz, a physician who has medical consultation programs on the American Fox News Channel.

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I sense that there will be impact in the world economy... and Malaysian too.. as there are lotsa Japanese companies investing in our country....

sad and scary at the same time....



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1365947/Japan-earthquake-tsunami-Nothing-prepared-Alex-Thomson-Hell-Earth.html

These images just leaves me speechless and bone wrenching. I wonder how those badly affect Japanese are coping with it right now.