[ RadSafe ] David Suzuki on Fukushima

[Roger Helbig]

This looks like the latest spin on the Arnold Gundersen version of
events that he has been peddling regarding spent Fuel Pool for Reactor
#4 - who is David Suzuki? - someone of some importance or just another
scientifically ignorant fool?

Roger Helbig

On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Brennan, Mike  (DOH)
<Mike.Brennan at doh.wa.gov> wrote:
> David Suzuki has issued a scary warning about Japan's Fukushima nuclear
> plant, saying that if it falls in a future earthquake, it's "bye bye
> Japan" and the entire west coast of North America should be evacuated.
> http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/11/04/david-suzuki-fukushima-warning_n
> _4213061.html
>
> It would be interesting to see estimates of what the death toll of
> evacuating "the entire west coast of North America" would be.  Probably
> hundreds of thousands in the panic that would leave much of the
> population of California in the desert when their gas runs out.  Many
> more when they can't get the medicine they need to stay alive.  Of
> course, the world-wide economic collapse that the loss of the commerce
> and resources of the West Coast would cause would kill millions, maybe
> more.
>
> But at least they would be spared being exposed to levels of radiation
> that might with difficulty be picked out from background.  Maybe.
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