Radioactive plume over Ireland: What would we do?

hardcore

I've been looking at this for a while. Basically if a nucleur power station in England exploded and ripped out radioactive isotopes we could be affected by the radioactive plume should the wind not be in our favour and blow towards Ireland.

What would you do? I think the government information on this is to stay indoors! lol.

KeithM89_old

Id just head down to my bunker like everyone else...

flyton5

Duck and cover.

Snakeblood

hardcore wrote: »

I've been looking at this for a while. Basically if a nucleur power station in England exploded and ripped out radioactive isotopes we could be affected by the radioactive plume should the wind not be in our favour and blow towards Ireland.

What would you do? I think the government information on this is to stay indoors! lol.

I'd gut you like a fish and wear your skin like a protective suit.

Er. What size are you?

hardcore

KeithM89 wrote: »

Id just head down to my bunker like everyone else...

You do know that these bunkers are ancient and the political elite of this country will get first preference. Good luck to that. How many bunkers do we have?

Kasabian

Find the iodine tablets, there in a cupboard somewhere.

AlmightyCushion

Iodine tablets for the win.

KeithM89_old

hardcore wrote: »

You do know that these bunkers are ancient and the political elite of this country will get first preference. Good luck to that. How many bunkers do we have?

Well i built my own out of old cardboard boxes and sellotape. I should be fine....

hardcore

Kasabian wrote: »

Find the iodine tablets, there in a cupboard somewhere.

That used to cover some of the old nucleur stations in England(including Sellafield) which have been closed down over the last few years. So these would be useless if we were to be exposed to this radiation. Of course the levels wont be as high but there would be an increase in cancer related deaths over a longer period of time.

AlmightyCushion

KeithM89 wrote: »

Well i built my own out of old cardboard boxes and sellotape. I should be fine....

Did you at least re-enforce the cardboard with extra sellotape?

Sonics2k

Sit on roof with shotgun, hazard suit, box of grenades and await the imminent zombie invasion.

karlog

We should bring in a new tax which pays for radiation suits for the general public:rolleyes:

BlaasForRafa

hardcore wrote: »

I've been looking at this for a while. Basically if a nucleur power station in England exploded and ripped out radioactive isotopes we could be affected by the radioactive plume should the wind not be in our favour and blow towards Ireland.

What would you do? I think the government information on this is to stay indoors! lol.

Tinfoil hat?

KeithM89_old

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Did you at least re-enforce the cardboard with extra sellotape?

I ran out half way through construction and used some shoe-laces and chewing gum so its pretty stable.

hardcore

I think sellotape wont work. But it should be highlighted we dont actually have an national emergency response for an accident like this in place which is astonishing given that Wyla in west Wales is 100km for our capital. Would gas masks work?

red menace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EbsrJuAoQo

This handy video explains what to do

Daegerty

Unless you can make it to the next transatlantic flight from Shannon you're ****ed.

tallaghtmick

get my laptop and post on ah:pac:

Daegerty

Maybe the wind turbines the Green Party put up have a reverse cycle.

We could pump the electricity from a good old fashioned turf burning plant into the wind turbines and push that radioactive cloud back to England.

common sense brigade

Didnt our government issue Iodine tablets back in 2002!

[Posted: Mon 17/06/2002 - www.irishhealth.com]

All households in Ireland are set to receive iodine tablets over the next few weeks, as part of the planning for a national emergency.

The stable iodine, being made available in tablet form, reduces the uptake by the thyroid gland of radioactive iodine.

There will be sufficient tablets for between four to five people contained in an orange box for each household. Directions about use and safekeeping will be included in the box.

Cheap Thrills!

Carry on regardless, what else could we do?

Kasabian

hardcore wrote: »

That used to cover some of the old nucleur stations in England(including Sellafield) which have been closed down over the last few years. So these would be useless if we were to be exposed to this radiation. Of course the levels wont be as high but there would be an increase in cancer related deaths over a longer period of time.

It's ok I have that covered too. I smoke.

common sense brigade

IFound this is was 1992!

Iodine tablets to be issued
[Posted: Mon 17/06/2002 - www.irishhealth.com]
All households in Ireland are set to receive iodine tablets over the next few weeks, as part of the planning for a national emergency.
The stable iodine, being made available in tablet form, reduces the uptake by the thyroid gland of radioactive iodine.
There will be sufficient tablets for between four to five people contained in an orange box for each household. Directions about use and safekeeping will be included in the box.

goose2005

Except that there aren't any in Enland - sellafield's in Wales. Not to mention that the same would happen if one of France's dozens of plants had an accident.

bodice ripper

die

Notorious97

Yes i see, we need our own nuclear plants to blow up in the event the one in the UK or France does, paybacks a bit*h :pac:

AlmightyCushion

hardcore wrote: »

I think sellotape wont work. But it should be highlighted we dont actually have an national emergency response for an accident like this in place which is astonishing given that Wyla in west Wales is 100km for our capital. Would gas masks work?

It's not really that astonishing given the likelihood of anything actually happening.

Cathaoirleach

The Irish Sea has been described by Greenpeace as the most radioactively contaminated sea in the world with some "eight million litres of nuclear waste" discharged into it each day from Sellafield reprocessing plants, contaminating seawater, sediments and marine life.

The consumption of seafood harvested from the Irish Sea is the main pathway for exposure of humans to radioactivity.

The environmental monitoring report for the period 2003 to 2005 published by the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland (RPII) reported that in 2005 average quantities of radioactive contamination found in seafood ranged from 1Bq/kg for fish to 44Bq/kg for mussels.

Eat up, folks!

hardcore

Decision to Discontinue the Future Distribution of Iodine Tablets

3 April 2008
During 2002, iodine tablets, intended to be taken in the event of a major nuclear accident that might result in the release of radio-active iodine, were issued to each household.
Mary Harney TD, Minister for Health and Children has decided, on the basis of expert risk management advice, not to re-issue these tablets.
In 2002, Ireland was the only country to issue iodine tablets to each household and it is now recognised that the risks which may have existed then have now been substantially reduced. In particular, there was concern at the time about the vulnerability of the Calder Hall reactors on the Sellafield site: however, these reactors are no longer operational.
The decision not to re-issue iodine tablets has been taken on the basis of the low risk of a radio-active iodine release and in the context of best international practice which does not recommend general household distribution other than in the immediate vicinity of a nuclear reactor.

http://www.dohc.ie/press/releases/2008/20080403c.html

Iwasfrozen

hardcore wrote: »

I've been looking at this for a while. Basically if a nucleur power station in England exploded and ripped out radioactive isotopes we could be affected by the radioactive plume should the wind not be in our favour and blow towards Ireland.

What would you do? I think the government information on this is to stay indoors! lol.

People would complain about the cost of cleaning the air.

Daegerty

Cathaoirleach wrote: »

to 44Bq/kg for mussels.

Eat up, folks!

I'm tempted to buy some to see if they glow in the dark

Iwasfrozen

hardcore wrote: »

I've been looking at this for a while. Basically if a nucleur power station in England exploded and ripped out radioactive isotopes we could be affected by the radioactive plume should the wind not be in our favour and blow towards Ireland.

What would you do? I think the government information on this is to stay indoors! lol.

People would complain about the cost of cleaning everything.

Hazys

Free radioactive plums? Sweet

Radioactive plums must me 10X the size and taste of a regular plum, win win

Orando Broom

hardcore wrote: »

I've been looking at this for a while. Basically if a nucleur power station in England exploded and ripped out radioactive isotopes we could be affected by the radioactive plume should the wind not be in our favour and blow towards Ireland.

What would you do? I think the government information on this is to stay indoors! lol.

You are aware that every desk fan in Ireland turned on simultaneously and pointed east will keep a lock of isotopes at bay and blow them back towards Perfedious Albion.

maximoose

Get my Pip-Boy and Flamer ready for all those Ghoul b*stards

bobblepuzzle

You'ld need an easterly wind, and that happens 3 or 4 times at most in Ireland, usually in Winter... so the UK would bare the brunt

orourkeda

We're gonna die.

That's right, we're gonna die.

hardcore

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

It's not really that astonishing given the likelihood of anything actually happening.

I agree that the new nucleur plants are much safer but there still should be health and safety procedures in the event of an accident even if it is not likely. That is the problem with this country in saying it will be grand and then a few years down the line we are unprepared if a fatal disaster occurs. Hiding under the matress wont make it go away!

Sanjuro

1. Build a Thunderdome

2. ????

3. Profit.

Dravokivich

er... what can they do?

look at them dissapointly and wag a few fingers?

hardcore

Sanjuro wrote: »

1. Build a Thunderdome

2. ????

3. Profit.

Something like this will work but a radiation protection tax will need to be introduced. I would be in favour of covering this over dublin.

I'd never have kids and I'd try live the rest of my shorted life to the full.

kelle

Kasabian wrote: »

Find the iodine tablets, there in a cupboard somewhere.

The out-of-date tablets...

antodeco

Watch out! Radioactive man plume!

AlmightyCushion

Cathaoirleach wrote: »

The Irish Sea has been described by Greenpeace as the most radioactively contaminated sea in the world with some "eight million litres of nuclear waste" discharged into it each day from Sellafield reprocessing plants, contaminating seawater, sediments and marine life.

The consumption of seafood harvested from the Irish Sea is the main pathway for exposure of humans to radioactivity.

The environmental monitoring report for the period 2003 to 2005 published by the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland (RPII) reported that in 2005 average quantities of radioactive contamination found in seafood ranged from 1Bq/kg for fish to 44Bq/kg for mussels.

Eat up, folks!

44Bq/KG is feck all. The human body has a radioactivity of over 100 Bq/KG and coffee 1000 Bq/KG.

hardcore wrote: »

I agree that the new nucleur plants are much safer but there still should be health and safety procedures in the event of an accident even if it is not likely. That is the problem with this country in saying it will be grand and then a few years down the line we are unprepared if a fatal disaster occurs. Hiding under the matress wont make it go away!

But even if an accident does happen the affects aren't likely to be that dangerous. The three mile island disaster in America there were no deaths and the radiation released might cause one death. The radiation from the fire at sellafield in the 50's is thought to be responsible for 200 deaths. I'm not saying that isn't bad but the money spent trying to protect us from these accidents would save more lives if spent elsewhere. How the hell do we even protect ourselves from an accident in the UK?

Spunge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXD6Gtinvbc

Play this bad boy

Korvanica

I'd stick my vault suit on and find my pip boy....