Comment 60990

By calmdown (anonymous) | Posted March 15, 2011 at 14:36:37

With all the fear-mongering BS out there (I'm looking at you network television!) this was a refreshing summary of what's going on.

The worst part has been listening to these reporters interviewing nuclear power experts and asking these stupid paranoid leading questions.

TV Reporter: So has the reactor explosion exposed people to dangerous levels of radiation?

Expert: (sighing) The reactor didn't explode. It was just the buil-

TV Reporter: Do people in California have to worry about fallout from wind blowing across the Pacific?

Expert: Well, no, I mean any radiation released so far is extremely short-lived, on the order of secon-

TV Reporter: But isn't it a possibility?

Expert: (getting annoyed) Well anything's possible, the situation is still developing and we don't know everything yet. But it's clear they're doing a good jo-

TV Reporter: There you have it, another expert warning that the worst is still possible in the Japanese nuclear reactor disaster. Over to you, Brett, with the weather.

There's a reason journalists went into journalism and not atomic physics, know what I mean?

Permalink | Context

Events Calendar

There are no upcoming events right now.
Why not post one?

Recent Articles

Article Archives

Blog Archives

Site Tools

Feeds