Is Japan Dangerous?

My physics teacher recently told me that because of the nuclear things that hapaned there japan is a really dangrouse place to go to and if you go you'll get sick ect. I'm not sure if i believe him though.. could somebody tell me weather this is true or not?

Do you mean the nuclear bomb or the radiation? Or both Because the nuclear bomb isnt allowed to happen since they signed a treaty agreeing to never use it

Sorry to say, but your physics teacher is full of shit. They evacuated the danger zones immediately and you can't get in unless you're an authorized person. For safekeeping, they've even put a ban on all agriculture in surrounding areas for a period of time. Of course, there were some idiots in the US who claimed they could "feel" the radiation from across the Pacific Ocean and started buying huge amounts of iodine. The only way you would be affected is if you ate some of the contaminated exports, which I explained earlier has been banned.

Japan is not dangerous. And nuclear power is the way to go, the problem with Japan is it is an active fault line and the Japanese government had been lax in inspections. It would have been equally harmful if an oil plant or coal plant had been in the same area, both can contaminate groundwater and release mercury into the environment. Japan has one of the highest life expectancies in the world. And also, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which had been irradiated by "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" probably received much more harmful levels of radiation. And those cities are still inhabited.

Radion never really goes away it just reduces to trace amounts because of its half life. But japan as an overall country should be safe. So plan a summer trip and get ready to have a blast

Well, as a general thing, since the reactors are not fixed and those surrounding areas haven't been declared safe yet even by that Japanese government, I'd avoid the immediate areas around fukushima and other affected areas. I think the US embassy advisory is a 50 miles distance away. Japan expanded the danger zone from I think 12 miles to like 20 so 50 seems to cover all the bases. But yeah, the only people right now that are in danger from radiation are the people going down to close those plants

As far as radiation is concerned, there is no significant radiation outside of the exclusion zone surrounding Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station. Even then, when it comes to radiation dose the most dangerous time was immediately after the event when a significant amount of radioactive cesium and rubidium went airborne following the hydrogen explosions that blew the dome off of the containment building in units 1 and 3, however the airborne contamination by now has already dispersed or fell out. The other thing most people don't realize is just how big Japan is. Japan is slightly smaller than the state of California and is roughly the same mirrored shape. If you were to travel from the northernmost point in Wakkanai on Hokkaido to the southern point in Kagoshima on Kyushu along the Pacific coastal plains, you would travel 2,900km (about 1800 miles) and it would take about 2 days to drive that distance. The exclusion zone only extends 10 miles around the plant, which itself is on the coast, and is about 150 miles from Tokyo and about 350 miles from Sapporo. Fukushima itself is a large prefecture and is perfectly safe. What you should get out of this is that you should not expect to receive any more radiation than you naturally receive on a day to day basis. Remember, though, that nobody died from the accident in Fukushima -- everyone who died in this incident died from the tsunami. Japan is still suspect to earthquakes, tsunami, dormant volcanoes, and typhoons and also has relatively harsh winter weather, but remember that no matter where you live in the world there is always a natural disaster that could kill you. In the end, its up to you whether living in or visiting Japan is worth the natural risks that will always exist with or without reactors.

Okay! .. I know japan is pretty dangerouse when it comes to natural disasters, but I'm not too worried about the winter at least, because it's still snowing in my country anyway and it'ss spring!!!