Scientists Project Path of Radiation Plume 'maybe' Aluetian Islands Thurs & So.California Friday

[Tx4obama]

A United Nations forecast of the possible movement of the radioactive plume coming from crippled Japanese reactors shows it churning across the Pacific, and touching the Aleutian Islands on Thursday before hitting Southern California late Friday.

Health and nuclear experts emphasize that radiation in the plume will be diluted as it travels and, at worst, would have extremely minor health consequences in the United States, even if hints of it are ultimately detectable. In a similar way, radiation from the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 spread around the globe and reached the West Coast of the United States in ten days, its levels measurable but minuscule.

Full article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/17/science/17plume.html?_r=1

[aquart]

1. Define "minor."

[daleo]

2. Maybe just a touch of cancer in a few years?

In other words, not an immediate danger so they will say it doesn't exist.

[aquart]

3. Define "touch."

[Tx4obama]

4. Define ''measurable but minuscule'' n/t

[daleo]

5. A touch of cancer is like a little bit pregnant. n/t