ybgirb has made the most salient point thus far.The object of my post was not a debate on nuclear fission as a viable energy source.It was about finding a solution to a real environmental problem that is affecting our entire planet.

I'm no friend of the Greens.There are issues in which I agree with them but their Communist Global Governace policies I have serious issues with.I also do not believe in AGW caused by CO2.

The nuclear industry use of fissionable materials is not a black and white issue.Prof Arnie Gunderson has demonstated that even at the most basic planning and construction of Fission Reactors,they are left seriously wanting in terms of safety,design,management and due diligence of being honest in revealing serious flaws.

Nuclear Fusion is the way of the future and we have the creativity and genius to achieve it.

Hi Fester,
You refer to atributal damage which was radiation exposure which is measurable like smokers deaths. Nobody knows what the DNA damage was and only in the last few years the answer to that question about DNA is still largely unknown . The researchers at this time only know of the high potential risk.

So whatever the long term DNA consequences are of Fukushima for millions in Japan is not Known. However the we will learn about that in years to come.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=30207 Prof Michel Chossudovsky adds to this debate with some alarming evidence.It reality is a far worse than I'm willing to admit to.

If all of Tokyo is forced to evacuate,how many boat people will be headed our way? We will not be able to stop them and total chaos will ensue.

<Nobody knows>

That is a good starting point, Pest. But with any scientific question, you look at similar situations for clues.

There is no dispute that radioactivity is very damaging at a molecular level, but the examples of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Chernobyl would suggest that the damage is small. You might also look at places with a high natural background radiation. Ramsar has the highest natural background radiation in the world, yet its population is healthy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsar,_Mazandaran

So barring more disasters at the Fukushima reactors, I would side with the scientific opinion that the Japanese are likely to suffer an effect so small as to be unmeasurable.

"Ramsar has the highest natural backgorund radiation in the world." This is proof that Fester and his ilk have no grasp of the science.Background radiation is not the problem.It is the new elements
like caesium etc that our bodies assimilate into our metabolism.

Thanks for that Arja,,
I agree it is the new elements like caesium etc that our bodies assimilate into our metabolism. If the 4 reactors and the waste fuel rods go critical. Which are the most dangerous elements in the long term for world wide human absorbion. That could effect DNA ?