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Xenon 133 Dispersion Animation - Radionuclide Has Blanketed Entire United States
Update: we are truly amazed that presenting what is a pure fact without any spin associated to it, can generate such an outbreak of insecurity and outright fear-driven responses. We had always expected that readers here can receive and interpret facts as presented, instead of demanding filtering for what some deem is unpleasant information. We urge that sub-segment to immediately and permanently orient their attention to other media outlets that does the prefiltering for them, as per the government's mandate of not spreading panic.
Radioactive Xenon 133 (5.243 day half life) has now reached the entire Eastern seaboard, and soon will likely cover the entire world.
Additionally, below is a projection of radioactive Iodine over Japan...
And radioactive Cesium over the Pacific
Source: Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG)
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Mine has a PhD in economics from Princeton.
Mine has a smelly glop secreting swollen anal gland from where ever it was that Obienotcutouttobe went to learn leadership skills.
Xenon is a gas...it gets inhaled. But more specifically the radiation it gives off beta and gamma...gamma goes right in. Xenon 133 (in uber low doses) is used for imaging of things such as lungs.
Send you PhD for a little wikipedia..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenon-133
Right send a physic PhD to wikipedia for info. They have expertise therefore we should beware their hidden agendas
yes the little sarcasm detector is right up there with the radiation detector (which really messes with you since I could be sarcastic about that statement....)..get it or am I too far above the PhDs?
I think my PhD is going to hit the floor laughing at your comment, so I thank you for the mirth you bring.
Addendum: PhD did indeed hit the floor laughing.
PHD: Pusillanimous Highfalutin' Dickhead...f'off.
We always called it "Pile it Higher and Deeper," but in any event, the qualification is there to make an assessment. What's yours?
Alright, Alright.........................
Everyone calm down and take a "DEEP" breath and this Xenon 133 gas will go away quicker......................!
PhD inflation... Clearly this is Bernanke's fault
That's cute... WikiPhdedia, the world's unrivaled source of fictional group conjured fact.
What about the water table, the crops and the livestock?
Asked your question to the physicist (I'm not a scientist, so have no idea myself): it would be harmless because it all would have decayed by the time there was any serious accumulation, with the time it took to blow across the North Pacific. It would only be a concern for a power plant worker exposed to a major release, not even for people in Tokyo.*
*Caveat: physicist is involved somewhat in nuclear power, but has no direct knowledge of Fukushima specifically... is simply trying to be helpful, not an authority on this one isolated event.
Anything else to ask? Don't mind relaying, although physicist might want to have a beer and retire for the evening soon.
What about the water table?
You have to keep it cold or it melts. A puddle on the floor can not be used to hold up table lamps or the old lady's vibrator. Damed inconvenient.
Xe-133 is a short-lived, radionuclide which is airborne (non-particulate), so as far as radioactive isotopes go this ain't too bad!
...bring it on only if it can be seen. In SoCal we never breathe anything we can't see.
! ! !
I hope this xenon stuff has a tendency to shrink a man's stomach and enlarge his penis. My wife will be so happy.
These are serious side effects in the male, but I hear the real concern is a four fold increase in the female libido. That could be pretty harsh in my household. What's 0 times 400 percent?
Ask your right hand.
Just how is it that you know he's right handed? Nevermind, I don't want to know.
good news, it's 0 plus 400%
Ann Coulter probably snorts ten kilos per year for her health.
Is that how she grew a cock?
no, no, Col., ya got it backwards..."she" had that thing taken off
But it keeps growing back, and out her mouth.
What do cocks have to do with Xenon 133 dispersion my friend. Please for the love of Dairy Queen, stay on topic!
yes, Mother......
Can someone who knows compare the amount of radiation from this xenon with the average dosage from radon trapped in homes for some perspective?
I see no increase in background gamma radiation levels for any of the 15 stations in the US that I am monitoring.
Also, Xenon 133 has a half life of around 5 days IIRC, and it's decay product, Cesium 133 is stable and non-radioactive. Combined with the fact that Xenon is a gas, and thus will disperse throughout the entire world's atmosphere, you should all definately panic.
Just kidding. But do panic anyway.
Dear Mr. Screwed Sheep Sir,
Are you okay with how the events in Japan are unfolding? Are you totally unworried about any aspect of it at all? If so, why? If not, what aspects of this thing are you concerned about?
You have a very contemptuous tone that makes it seem as if you think you know what is up AND feel superior to those who in your judgement do not.
When I am in teaching mode, I find out where my students are and close the gap. I do not mock them for what they do not know, that closes down communication.
So are you here to reassure folks or what is it exactly that you are up to, Mr. Screwed Sheep?
How would you approach a student that is curled up in the fetal position, holding a death grip on a bottle of bourbon?
With a tazer armed, finger on the trigger.
No, the finger is not on the trigger, it could accidentally go off. Index finger is extended, to the side of the trigger.
With a long straw?
I did not get what you are rudely suggesting from his post at all.
You are the one being extremely condescending.
Yes, the Japanese government is FOS and are covering up a bunch of bad data.
No, the levels aren't bad, and very likely will not be bad in the US. There is a very low probablility that this goes Chernobyl.
To get a grip of relative radiation levels, xkcd put together a great chart.
http://blog.xkcd.com/2011/03/19/radiation-chart/
Hopefully you aren't as condescending to your pupils as your were in greatly overreacting to his post.
He and I had an exchange on another thread. I was very rude to him there, but he started it by mocking everyone concerned about the reactors recording temperatures hotter than the boil temperature.
To be honest with you, I just reread my post and cannot find where I have been rude in this thread.
If you cannot see where you are being rude, then I cannot help you.
I can understand being rude to someone if there is a past heated history.
cornedmutton = screwed sheep.
I let him know I understood his handle. Was that the rudeness?
You were fine, ignore the syphilis reservoir.
On a happier note, the bread tonight was wonderful.I used very cheap all purpose flour to get to 1 dollar or less per loaf.Epic batch...everyone is stuffed with hot bread from the oven slathered in butter...yum.Sleep beckons for the children...Daddy will stay up for a time.
+ cinnamon sugar :)
Funny you say that,Colonel.Next batch will be cinnamon raisin, as demanded by the denizens here.I hope it turns out well!
I can smell the yummieness now! These are wonderful memories you are helping to create.
+1 bazillion. Let the Bernanke print that. Can't. Love is.
You just outed yourself as a sweetie. You can't take it back. Secretly, no matter what avatars you might take on, no matter how you cuss and carry on, you love and defend wholesomeness/goodness. Love ya Col.
FWIW I know the thread MsCreant is talking about, and Corned did come off as a jerk in it. MsCreant usually is quite measured, so while Corned does seem to bring some substance, I'd be inclined to give MsCreant the benefit of the doubt. Reset I hope... they've both got something to say.
I won't pretend to be impartial.MS rocks...and I consider her a friend in the truest fight club sense.Anyone who does what she does for a living/avocation deserves a healthy measure of respect.Not all Professors are created equal....
She gets props JUST FOR HER BEING who she is.
Thanks. I don't deserve it, but thanks.
Yes, you do.
I may be more scarce in the future....Lent and all....
Peace to you and yours.And you are welcome for dinner anytime.No notice required.Just stop in... here in Asheville, NC. Bring the hubby and the whole entourage!It's all good.
Later....
And I am serious about dinner anytime....oh, it would be so tasty!
Thanks for the vote of confidence. I was probably harsher than I should have been and that is never good. I do think Corned has some substance. Reset is a good idea.
Rude, now that is funny. Take it from someone who has actually been on the other end of her stick, around 2009. You boys don't know rude.
Bad dog, bad.
Seriously, if you want me to know who you are, you can email me at first name dot second name @ fullname dot com.
I think I know who you might be if you are real. I am surprised none of my babies have found me out here earlier. If correct, only a little embarassing, but not bad. I am what I am. My students know I am bad. Some of them hate it, others get it and smile.
Stick, riiiiiight. More like schtick. But yeah, rude as hell for a higher good.
Immaterial ramblings of insignificant capacities. Ignore their meanderings. We've more important cisterns to deeply disturb.
You are most likely correct.
Pop quiz:
Who was recently quoted as saying...
“I’m going to be the Osama bin Laden of capitalism. I’m on my way to an unknown destination in Asia where I’m going to look for a cave,” he joked.
...right, a cave with self-purifying air, food for life, and all the hamburgers and coke a fella could want.
Jim Rogers?
It was Warren the Weasel.....just before he bragged that he was going to buy everything Japanese with his war chest.
T.E.I.N. everyone.
Did the Weasel have his slit-skirted CNBC minx "Becky" Quick accompany him as personal consort to his Cherry Coke-stocked private cave ?
"slit skirt, slit skirt"--i don't know why i thought i had some divine right to the blues/it's sympathy not tears that people need when they're the sad news
You gonna leave us hanging like that?
Charlie isn't too happy about it.
Rachel Ray?
I can't stand that biyatch. She can take that DeLish stuff and shove it up her rectum. I already like her less than Bin Laden.
Ouch! Talk about trade surplus!
Isn't it ironic that the japs, who like to walk around with their mouth covers for protection, are now contaminating the world?
After eating all of that raw fish I wish they would cover their anuses with a mask.
Dirty Bombs, bitchez.
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Does anyone have info or knowledge of the effects of this particular isotope in the human body, or how it accumulates in the food chain? I suppose the short halflife means that this is not a major health concern either directly or through agriculture, although I don't have expertise on this subject. Can anyone answer this?
Nevermind--partially answered above while I was typing the question.
The greatest risk is an accute dose to your lungs, should you breath a lot of it. There's no way you will through as this is like pouring a drop of salt water into a pool of fresh water and then claiming the pool is now "contaminated" beyond hope.
Wait...cant you just add a teaspoon of sugar and call it taste neutral?
Why the junk? I think this is a legitimate question. I understand that the concentration of this isotope in the air is low, but for some substances (i.e. asbestos) one particle is enough to cause problems. I didn't realize that this forum was only for declaring opinions, rather than asking the more informed opinions of other readers.
you're still new; my brethren are loose cannons - will junk for show, especially since they don't have to show [but I've never done that, myself]. don't take it personal - unless you deserve it
I guess you gotta go through a lot of muck when you pan for gold. But you know the gold is here.
I junked you just to toughen you up. Quit wasting your energy caring about who junks you. Eventually, you will get people who follow you around just to junk you.
BTW, I always claim my junks. You should junk me just for fun now. See? Who cares?
Nothing that's happened in Japan so far is likely to have a significant effect on human health in the mainland U.S.
If things deteriorate into a full-meltdown scenario, with a really brisk explosion, then there would likely be certain areas in the U.S. with a mildly increased cancer risk. But that scenario seems pretty unlikely right now.
I was a doc in the military for a while and I feel pretty confident about that assessment.
Military music is to music as military justice is to justice as military medicine is to medicine.
(Sorry, just joking, sarc on) . . .
Blue and Green are less badness than Pink and Magenta - - anybody know what the scale / magnitude of the dose this shows actually is? Microwave dinner level? Or did the entire Southwest just lose 20 yrs of life expectancy?
Oh. Answered already. If it weren't for the math I'd have gotten my question in sooner...
If they could just do South Carolina and Georgia, that would work for me.
Captcha question is way too easy: 47 plus --- = 102. Come on, my 9 year old niece knows that it's 55, same number as we have states.
Don't worry guys, xenon-133 is used (by inhaling) to determine pulmonary function and during lung imaging.....when you go to the hospital get your lungs tested now, you can get a discount.
True. However, there is a difference between an isolated exposure during a brief pulmonary functioning test, and continuous exposure (for perhaps months) if these reactors continue to spew radioactive products into the atmosphere.
Also true, unless you need a lot of pulmonary testing done. I am - as always - trying to look on the bright side.
Breath deeply. Now quickly exhale. Again, breath deeply.....now hold it. I'm be back in 10.
With a an appropriately stylish toe-tag, I assume?
The only one that matters to your next of kin. That's why God makes life insurance.
LMAO....CogDis, you do sometimes give Wmbanzai a run for his money
Someone cut that dude's nasty-ass toenails.
In my case, I will pass on my access to government cheese....ahhh, government cheese.
Funerals free... ?
Yours is some truly glowing commentary.
One would like to know at what altitude these isotopes are spreading. If they thin out into the atmosphere between zero and one thousand ft., say, there won't be that many to inhale.
Pity it ain't krypton, or we would all awake as Supermen.
Tyler's short positions must be really getting to him now....he's reaching.
...for the data. Correct. But since everyone already knew the US is covered in perfectly innocent radioactive Xenon (they keep repeating it on the news), this news, like everything else, is surely also priced in. Yet for those who may have missed the hourly blast, and may want to make their independent decision of what you think is or is not in their best interest, we recreate the chart (sourced in Austria) above. Lastly, if you really believe something as irrelevant as data can sway the Fed's third mandate you should catch up on about a year's worth of zerohedge reading
Tyler, for crying out loud when are you going to clear some of the troll drift wood off the ZH beach? It's really getting cluttered in here lately.
Hard to lay down a beach towel and soak some rays....no pun intended.
I concur. Tyler, please keep the troll market in check.
slit skirt, slit skirt/jeanie isn't wearing those/jeanie wouldn't dare in those
tyler, your website, u can do what u want, but the one thing that I like about this site is that you allow everyone to have an opinion, even the trolls
Watch what you wish for, CD, you could be first to go, just for bitching.
Now go write a 2000000000 word essay on nose picking.
I think I better get out my duct tape and sheets of plastic. It is time to seal the world out. Disaster Recovery starts in 10 , 9, 8, 7........................
Tyler got junked. Now that's funny.
looks lke you, too. ha! it's too easy when ya know you wont be found out; holy shit Tyler's got 3 now...a little subversive counterinsugency goin'... need a junk-perpetrator-monitor-back-trace function...let's talk to NSA and DHS, I'm sure they have such right off-the-shelf
"Tyler got junked. Now that's funny."
I can see Sacrilege with his feet up on the desk playing xBox on his iPad.
Christ sakes!
http://www.khou.com/news/neighborhood-news/Expansion-plans-at-Bay-City-n...
check it out TD, nuclear power is a hot potato and nobody loves her anymore. imagine that.....
Of course, some would say it's the Fed's first mandate. Along with making sure Uncle can peddle his junk bonds . . .
anyone know the affect of heavy rain like experienced in socal? good or bad?
does it dissipate or ameliorate the radiation or make it worse?
...come to think of it my morning stool looked a bit orange, but I chalked it up to the bag of Cheetos last night. I don't have a clue what ameliorate means but it don't sound good.
I think you have set yourself up for a lot of homosexual comments with that one. You seem a decent fellow so I will pass on the opportunity to laugh about your buddy having an orange member.
I don't think it was the Cheetos from last night. The bag says they have a half life of a little over 2 years inside you're digestive system. If anything I'd say your morning stool contained the bag you ate around Xmas of 2008.
Jees, CD - now you have wondering about all those bags I've eaten.
Just getting back from a night of too much hooch, CD. For god sake quit telling the truth. We can't handle the truth, but thanks for the chuckles.
Doc found a lodged,35 year old cornflake during my colonoscopy. Poos no longer have that contoured edge I always wondered about...
Play Poo
Mr Hanky, the christmas poo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu4AuQA50pg
Hulk-man, my respect for your biting commentary & in-depth research [WTF did ya find that one?] has taken a quantum leap (to where...?)
kids + southpark
I ate a pigeon once and my stool went and told my parole officer.
I'm reserving judgment, as my parents taught me not to be xenonphobic.
TEPCO, TEPCO, look what you have wrought.
What comes around goes around.
That animation was the national weather service satellite maps. There were maybe 3 or so positive Xe 133 readings. The levels at gross cpm were about 100 times below back ground cpm. They could only be seen by performing spectral analysis on background disintegrations.
This site is leading the hysteria on this issue. And you say the right buy is gold. What a joke?
It would be hard to find a site more dedicated to panic than ZH. They have a tie-in with a metals investment firm.
I figured your S&M site would tell you to panic like hell when that chair slips away. Good thing for you that midget is on standby. You better hope the chair doesn't knock him out or you will be joining Brian Epstein and David Carradine in their fate.
Why, what happened to Brian and David?
Serious.
Autoerotic asphyxiation. Hence the chair, fallin off and I daresay a midget apparently involved in someone's vivid imagination
Hmm, you're really smart, yet you keep posting here.
What was gold this time last year?..how about silver? how about oil? If you listened..you are sitting very pretty right now.
So does this mean that the Warrior Princess is coming back to SPIKE?
For those who don't think this is a big deal...
xe 133 decay products:
cs 133
...that's ok, we have a whole 5 days to even start worrying about that.
Yo Chicken Little --- it has a half life of 5 days. But if you want, go ahead and start digging up your buried Franklin half dollars & flashlight batteries, just to be sure.
Cs 133 is stable. Cs 137 is the one to worry about. Relax.
Well what we should be concerned about is that Iodine 133 decays into Xenon 133. Iodine 133 is dangerous although it's half-life is < 24 hours. However, if Iodine 133 is decaying into xenon 133 on it's voyage across the Pacific ocean one has to wonder what else is wafting over here that is not being reported.
Unless we are to assume that the only nucleotide wafting over the Pacific is soley Xenon 133 which I highly doubt.
I hate to sound so conspiracy minded but with a government that has been as dishonest, and as compelled to participate in such clandestine misinformation campaigns (to include everything under the sun), I have been left with little to no alternative to question things with such relavance as radioactive fallout in my own backyard. I wish my trust for the government, and agencies operating under the tentacles of the government, wasn't as damaged as it is.
...it also doesn't help that the US president is in Rio while things like this are occuring, having barely acknowledging it's occurence.
Only sheep trust the shepherd. Find the answers for yourself and you are neither led to the slaughter nor worried about the slaughtering taking place.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fission_product
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fission_products_(by_element)
If Xenon 133 has a half life of 5.5 days, and it takes 10 days to get to the Eastern Seaboard from Japan, then it shouldn't be too much of a problem unless everyone was planning on living a long time.
I figure one more month before we start to see the 1-800-lawyer ads on TV for tort action.
You won't see any tort lawyer class-action lawsuits (trust me) because governments can only be sued when they literally agree to be sued (by statute or otherwise), and that just ain't going to happen here.
might want to read up on half life...in 10 days it is at 1/4 life...15 days 1/8 life, etc... it is still giving off radiation.
We're fucked. We will all have 3 nipples and hairy palms soon. Now I won't feel like such an outsider, thank you high frequency active auroral research program. We are all one now.
Isn't it about time for you to start some trouble with douchinger?
I've had hairy palms since junior high...of course i grew up 15 miles from TMI...hmmm..
So Nukes make ya horny? No wonder. Now i get the all day tent pitch.
Its blowing over everywhere except Japan! (lucky bastards)
Is there xenon in young girls' used panties? If so, that will take out most of the male population of Japan.
Did you even go to the actual site?
Japan is getting a disturbing dose of I131 and Cs137. That is the real tragedy here.
WTF. Where the hell is the revolution?
CIA Assisted Revolution to install NWO controlled government is now taking place in Libya.
Seriously, what will that matter if we are all glowing?
The nuclear power glow in the dark effect will help reduce our electric bills and thus our dependence on foreign oil. We can now safely outlaw those infernal incandescent lights. Its all good.
Taco Bell still has affordable food and beverage items. The revolution is on hold for another day.
I love Taco Bell but they always make you pay through the ass.
Western seaboard?
I thought it was a missprint, I don't know what it is,
but if it came from fukishima (what a name!) It cannot be good.
OMG. they really fuked up !
no other words for it, don't care how many tears r shed by the tepco elite.
Is that a night light in your pants or are you just happy to see us?
The only good thing about knowing that the East Coast could be a toxic wasteland is the thought it might also take out Wall Street, The Hamptons and any CNBC scum bags that live in Short Hills.