Awesome Nuclear Crisis Resource Mind Map

Sources, Feeds, References, and Resources.  Organized in an interactive format.  I hope to have an index soon.  ...more updates to come.  The better to help us all not freak out unnecessarily.


(If you are unfamiliar with mind maps, enjoy, you can click on any of the links, reposition the  map by drag and drop, etc.  Sources and other formats appended below. Powered by Freemind.)


h/t to corporanon

The original purpose of gathering these links was to talk me out of unnecessarily freaking out about the radiation that is hitting the West Coast.  Key word, unnecessarily.  I may not be drinking milk or eating spinach, I certainly am avoiding rain, don't even want it in my house -- but its not like I think it will kill me.  Probably not ever, not the amounts I have been exposed to so far. And even if I had enough KI for my local community -- I wouldn't be taking it.  Yet.


One thing of which I am sure: the information needs to be made available, and accessible, so that people can decide for themselves.  The readouts from all the monitoring stations -- I wish there were more -- so we can check sources against each other.  A basic grasp of the admittedly difficult science behind radioactivity, the different forms, classes, and phases, how it is blocked, reflected, intensified.  How radiation is measured -- internal, external, factoring in area, volume, or time -- so that, on point of freaking out, we do not conclude that the complications are a premeditated ploy to confuse us (they are not). An understanding of this and other nuclear disasters, exactly what caused them and what if anything has been done to address them.  What radiation pills are, how to calculate a dose even without instruments,  and why and when, and why not and when not, they should be distributed.  And to whom. -- Knowledge of how a triage nurse assesses radiation exposure, from minimal to severe. To name but a few of the resources included above. So we can protect ourselves, and so we can act as the force of much needed oversight on the nuclear industry.


Be seeing you.