Our radioactive ocean

Radioactive iodine is now at scary levels in the ocean near Japan's broken reactors. But we're advised not to worry because the area has been evacuated and fishing has been stopped.

Also, radioactive iodine will decay quickly and become non-radioactive iodine (this is true).

What this doesn't tell us is whether other radioactive elements that last longer are also leaking. One expert says that more releases are likely because it appears that one reactor core has suffered a meltdown.

I think we should expect more bad news about our radioactive ocean, including some elements that are more worrying than iodine.

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Nuclear reactor crisis in simple terms

Japan tries to explain the nuclear reactor crisis to kids. What do you think?

… Japanese artist Kazuhiko Hachiya has made a cartoon to help ease the small minds of the nation. “Nuclear Boy” chronicles Fukushima’s reactor cracks and radiation leaks in a way that’s easily relatable to kids:

The nuclear power plant has a tummy ache, and we’re trying to make sure it’s not going to take a great big poop all over the country.

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Radiation fears? Civil society steps up

Here's an amazing website that shows radiation measurements taken around the world, designed to help display the radiation problems caused by the Japanese reactor crisis.

Active people responding to a crisis...quickly...when an information vacuum is scary. Go see for yourself, at rdtn.org

Thank you rdtn.org!

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