Those are humbling journals, thank you both. I recently saw a documentary about the people that have chosen to return/remain in the area. Sheryl you make a good point that the plants have survived and so bring deeper thought to the subject of how plants are involved in the purification process.
I brought up Japan to start because our member over in the cubes, Jon (pajonica) lives with his family in Japan and so we have had much discussion about the process of life there after the quake. He typically gardens and grows much of his own produce and recently, after testing his soil for radiation was told to grow nothing to eat in his soil at all. Sheryl's point makes me think that overall vegetation propigation (not for food) might be advisable.
With regard to water supply however, it seems that there has been no way to contain the spread though the land but also in the oceans.
Right Sheryl....seems like we ran OT a bit, but maybe not.
