I think some people need a geography lesson. Finland is not next to Japan. Nor is the continental United States. Yet people in both countries are rushing out to buy potassium iodine tablets, and some in their idiot governments are inciting a panic, like the Surgeon General of the United States.
A news article in California blasting the Surgeon General’s ill-conceived political statements said that if a nuclear reactor in California was to go into full meltdown, the authorities would only give out potassium iodine to people living within 10-12 miles of the reactor. From Tokyo to Los Angeles, it is roughly 5,478 miles. From Tokyo to Helsinki it is 4,878 miles.
This is not like a nuclear warhead going off and throwing up billions of tons of dirt into the upper atmosphere, and radioactive dust raining down around the entire world over weeks and months. By the time any radiation from Japan reaches Los Angeles or Helsinki, it will have mostly blended into the background.
At its worst, Chernobyl’s nuclear accident contaminated 125,000 square miles. The airspace above the Pacific Ocean between Japan and the West Coast is in the neighborhood of 18,000,000 square miles. Radiation from Japan won’t make it. The other thing is that the Soviets had no containment for their reactors, other than the housing for the nuclear cores themselves. And the graphite used in the Soviet reactors were like candy to an out of control nuclear reaction.
Settle down, people. Just stay cool.
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