by David Safier
I was more than a little disturbed when they were reporting water at 100,000 times the legal limit for radioactivity coming from the Fukushima Daiichi plant. But when you hit 5 million times the legal limit . . . words fail.
So now the government is considering restrictions on seafood. They found contaminated fish "well south of the damaged nuclear reactors."
They know there's an 8 inch wide crack — they don't say how long — that water is pouring out of. By way of reference, your kitchen sink drain hole is less than 4 inches. Based on their track record for accuracy, I'm willing to guess they're lowballing that 8 inch estimate. To try and plug it, they're experimenting with "what are little more than home remedies" — newspaper (really), sawdust, concrete, now "liquid glass." Translation: they don't know what the hell they're doing.
It's BP oil spill redux, substituting radioactivity for oil. The only thing we're missing is cute terms like junk shot and top hat.