Gary7 said:
The article I linked to earlier clearly states the decontamination occurred on Sunday, two days after the earthquake. Also, the New York Times reported on Sunday March 13th that USS Ronald Reagan encountered radiation. If the events on the USS Ronald Reagan transpired a few hours after the explosion of #3, the New York Times could not have reported on this on the 13th.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/world/asia/14plume.html?_r=1
To put this in even finer detail: The explosion at #3 occurred at about 11:01 am on Monday the 14th (Japan time). This would be 9:00pm on the night of the 13th, EST. Given the time it takes for the helicopter to travel to the aircraft carrier, get decontaminated, and then for the aircraft carrier to reposition itself, and then for that information to get to the reporter, and to have him write the copy and send it to the editors for publishing, it would seem that the only way the New York Times could have reported on this on the 13th would be if they were in possession of a time machine.
Since I think this is of some relevance to the explosion at #3, I have invested a bit of time in the details. However, since it has very little value in helping understand the physics of the event, I will be more than happy if the moderators see fit to delete any and all discussion of the so-called "ballistic radiation levels" and "contaminated food and water" of the USS Ronald Reagan.
You are incorrect.
Read the article from the NYT it says clearly it was written and published online the 13th and published in the paper the 14th of March.
Look here at the Navy announcement referenced in the NYT article:
http://www.cpf.navy.mil/media/news/articles/2011/mar/mar13_C7F_reposition.shtml
It is dated the 14th of March - because that was the local date. The way the NYT was able to reference an article that was published a day later is that they wrote it the night before.
The NYT issued that article on the 13th of March at 11:15 pm which is their normal news deadline for the following day publication.
In these days of tweets, it doesn't take long for the news of something to get out. At that particular time, all eyes in the world were on the effects of the earthquake/Tsunami and the beginning of the reactor crisis. I was watching this happen, real time. The Navy can issue a press report directly from the ship - no "time machine" needed.
The logs would tell that the Reagan experienced the problem shortly after the explosion of #3 and turned and went the other direction. First post of it on this thread is number 93 at 1:45 pm Eastern on the 14th.
And, it has very much value in understanding the physics of the event. There was a cloud of radioactive material that caused an aircraft carrier to abandon its mission and take on another. We need to know what was in that cloud, because that will tell you what happened a few hours earlier, and it will tell you what hit the west coast of North America 4 days later.
Furthermore, despite your wanting to delete all evidence of my posts. The quote about contaminated air and water supplies on the ship comes directly from the articles posted above.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/uss-ronald-reagan-fought-contamination-amid-effort-aid-20110325-052432-393.html
Quotes from the article reveal that air and water contamination was detected. What they do not say is what kind of particles caused the problem - but they do say "low level radiation" several times, although their actions do not coincide with that assessment:
"The level of contamination in the air made it difficult to conduct accurate checks on people, so Powell took over the ship's barber shop — a poorly ventilated space that protected the air inside and kept the contamination level low enough to conduct accurate "frisks," or tests.
Meanwhile, the ship itself was taking evasive action, trying to move out of the area of the radioactive plume. After about two hours, it succeeded, Powell said.
"And then after that, we just started checking out the helicopters, checking out all the people, put them all in this little tiny room," he said. "It was kind of scary."
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"At one point, the carrier's commanding officer announced that there was some radiation in the ship's drinking water supply, and "I know everybody went down to the vending machines to grab (a) bottle of water," Duke said."
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"Cmdr. Ron Rutan, the Reagan's chief engineer who supervised the swabbing of the deck and other surface areas, said such a cleanup was unprecedented.
"I don't know of any aircraft carrier that's ever been contaminated like this," he said."
Here's a picture of them washing down the deck of the carrier - looks to me like more than just a simple rinse off of a couple helicopters.
I clearly said that the "ballistic" comment was from a blog that I can no longer locate - you can take that one with a grain of salt if you want.
