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[Sandkat]

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[LuvsGurl]

Leave it to the Japanese to make light of a dangerous situation with potential global implications.

[bignappybo]

Well that is what they want us to think.

[curiositykilledthecat]

Reminds me of the old duck and cover videos. the only thing that would have accomplished was duck n cover and kiss your butt good-bye.

[AutieAB]

The majority of media coverage of the Fukushima situation (and I'm looking at you, CNN and BBC) has been absolutely awful from beginning to end with uninformed idiots spouting stuff they don't actually understand and BS statistics like "radiation levels 10 times normal background levels in Tokyo" being used to scare people who don't know any better. While that may have been true at that particular moment in time, 10x background is a vanishingly insignificant amount and is completely and utterly harmless

So far, nobody has received any harmful level of radiation exposure except one guy who was close to the reactor building when the first hydrogen explosion happened. The amount of radiation exposure he received was not enough to warrant serious concern as a one-off incident in his life.

A much, much, much better analysis of the situation:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/18/fukushima_friday/

TL;DR, quit buying up all the potassium iodine pills - you don't need them!