"What we have with all of this can be boiled down to one simple answer. The world press is creating a panic over something that shouldn't be blown this far out of porportion! I lived in Japan for several years as a kid when my father was in the Navy and I feel for the Japanese people who have lost their families and are suffering through hardships most of us couldn't begin to fathom. But we have the talking heads on the glogal news networks creating a panic about radiation that is less than a chest x-ray! How about focusing on the homeless and hungry japanese people who could be better served by the talking heads than some fantasy radiation scare that will never be noticed? Who cares is a miniscule amount of radiation is added to the atmosphere for a few days?"

I have to disagree a bit. The TV news that I am getting seem to downplay what's going on at Fukushima . I even heard one talking head say that radiation is good for you. It would be funny, if it wasn't a serious issue. Radiation is not good for you. My national tv news doesn't even talk about what's going on at fukushima any more. As if the situation is solved. It's not. It's ongoing and it is serious.  I understand the need to downplay the incident, after all creating large scale panic would kill more people than radiation eventually may. Also the nuclear industry has a product to sell, so Fukushima is not excatly good publicity for them.

Same thing happened with Chernobyl. Every government on earth (Especially Soviet government) tried to downplay the meltdown and all kinds of redicilous things were being said publicly. Now some recent studies suggest that more than a million people died because of Chernobyl.

It's possible that the people who live in the Fukushima area, wont be able to return to their homes. If I lived there, I certainly wouldn't go back as long as I lived.  The soil might also become contaminated for a long period of time, making it useless for agriculture.  I think that's a serious issue when you have so many displaced people already and the governments resources are stretched.

D'oh! Why do things that happen to stupid people keep happening to me?