Chile finds radiation in cars — Tests show up to a level 5 on radioactive index

[Generic Other]

level 9 needed for alert

Chilean officials found traces of radioactivity in tests on around 20 used cars on a ship from South Korea that had been in the vicinity of Japan’s damaged Fukushima atomic plant, a report said Monday. <...>

said the vehicles were showing a level of one to five on a radioactive index, below the level of nine needed for an alert.

The ship sailed from South Korea and then docked at the Japanese ports of Osaka and Yokohama, located 500 kilometers (300 miles) from the reactor in Fukushima <...>

The 83 workers who had contact with the vehicles “were tested by customs at their request,” Barria said <...>

http://enenews.com/chile-finds-radiation-ship-south-korea-tests-show-level-5-radioactive-index-level-9-needed-alert

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Nice corporate mindset at work. You can't sell them at home. Pawn off the radioactive, used cars on unsuspecting South Americans. Watch out third world nations for Japanese bearing bargains. Seems like Japan is asking the world to turn back their ships: Return to sender--too high a price.

[Poll_Blind]

1. This is bad because greed and commerce become a substantial vector in the transmission of...

...this nasty shit. I mean, being 5,800 miles away from Fukushima is reassuring to me, but how reassuring is it to think someone's going through the trouble of shipping products which were far, far closer to it, right to my door.

PB

[Generic Other]

2. Bad PR move bound to blow up in Japanese government's face

Especially stuff they wouldn't let their own people touch. Selling it to unsuspecting strangers is highly unethical.

[Poll_Blind]

3. By the way, is it unfair of me to say that if such a situation had happened in the U.S., that ...

...Japan would have no qualms cutting imports from us?

PB

[Generic Other]

6. I think Japan should have thought about the economic repercussions

Used car salesmen tactics are not a viable economic policy for a nation that wants to stay in business.

[Tesha]

4. Ahh -- a new field for the CarFax report: "Scintillator reading: nn" (NT)

[RC]

5. The sky is falling, the sky is falling!

"said the vehicles were showing a level of one to five on a radioactive index, below the level of nine needed for an alert."

This is half of what is needed for an alert. Overly paranoid anyone? Oh hell yes, our frontal lobes are locked up from the fear mongers, what do ya expect?!

Where was this radioactivity? on the inside or outside the cars? Run them through a car wash maybe. How about a good vacuuming?

[Generic Other]

7. Are you volunteering to wash cars in Fukushima?

I am sure they are eager for your help.

In the meantime, don't ship a bunch of radioactive lemons to my country without a warning label on the shipping container.

You have ZERO right to determine the validity of other people's level of concern about nuclear reactors and their poisonous emissions. ZERO.

Pro-nuclear proponents' motives? Suspect. Most who back nukes do so because they stand to profit from their continued operation.

Anti-nuclear proponents' motives? Any fear is based on understanding the stakes and not being willing to take the risks. There are no safe levels.

[RC]

8. All I can say is "People fear what they don't understand." Superstition is rooted in ignorance.

You have ZERO right to feed the fear of other peoples level of concern about nuclear reactors. ZERO.
Deal in facts, not paranoia.

[Generic Other]

10. The fact is anyone who opposes nuclear power based on its risks

is 100% correct. You cannot buy private insurance for a nuclear facility because they are all one China Syndrome away from catastrophe. The dangers can't be contained, the potential for devastating consequences ever-present.

Analogy: You don't know how to land an airplane but you think we should let you fly a jet around NYC.

Your pro-nuke position got us to this moment in time when you are flying around totally clueless how to come in for a landing. Supreme arrogance rooted in some sort of faith that future problems will be solved and thus need not concern us in the present.

These are the facts. You are endangering my children, my country and my planet with your foolhardy half-baked plans to spread deadly nuclear power plants to every corner of the planet when you don't even know how to control them. Don't blame me for being paranoid when you are the cause of my fears.

[Warren DeMontague]

15. Keep your conscience in the dark, melt the statues in the park

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf6vCjtaV1k

[Overseas]

9. K&R.

Sorry things seem much worse than originally hoped.

[Hannah Bell]

11. link me to the reports that the japanese have stopped buying they cars they produce.

what a bunch of crap.

[Generic Other]

12. Well I am Japanese-American and I won't be buying one if it is making a geiger counter tick

I would be uncomfortable having Japanese goods shipped to me if I can't vouch for their safety. It is a matter of perception.
If I don't feel safe, no amount of arguing is going to change my mind.

I import a lot of Japanese food from Ibaraki. Do you really think I should continue this practice when the farmers are not even selling their produce in Japan?

Should I continue to buy other goods and assume they are safe from radiation? If it comes to a choice of keeping my family safe or trusting the safety of the products, I will err on the side of caution and cease ordering these goods from Japan.

[Hannah Bell]

13. which is irrelevant to what i asked. the person i responded to said that the japanese

couldn't sell their cars in japan (because japanese didn't want to buy radioactive cars) & were exporting them in effect to export radiation.

idiocy.

[MilesColtrane]

14. What a horribly reported story.

"one to five on a radioactive index"

What the fuck does that even mean?

Does Agence France-Presse have bonobos typing their wire releases?