EDUC Just How Big Is a Kilometer Anyway? Staying Out of the Radiation Zone.

[theoriginaldeb]

For any one else that is wondering about the conversion formula of Kilometers to miles and other metric distances for things like the Fukushima Reactor.

1 km = 0.621371 mi.
OR 0 mi. and 1093.6 yd

And 30km--the distance that we keep hearing for the Fukushima radiation zone:
30 km = 18.6411 mi.
OR 18 mi. and 1128.3 yd



This is a great website for metric conversions with an added feature that makes it possible to add them to a personal website.

http://www.metric-conversions.org/length/kilometers-to-miles.htm

 

[Publius]

1 kilometer is equal to 0.62137110 of a mile, it works out to just a little more than 6/10s' of a mile. So if their saying to say back 20 kilometer it about 12 and 1/4 miles. 30 kilometer is about 18 and 6/10s' miles.

 

[Publius]

If japans government is going with a permanent 18 kilometer exclusion zone, in U.S. Miles they would be condemning about 121 square miles of land, if 30 kilometer its 162 square miles. Now keep in mind the power plant in right on the ocean so I'm working out the land that people can live on.

 

[theoriginaldeb]

If japans government is going with a permanent 18 kilometer exclusion zone, in U.S. Miles they would be condemning about 121 square miles of land, if 30 kilometer its 162 square miles. Now keep in mind the power plant in right on the ocean so I'm working out the land that people can live on.

Japan is a country of about 377,835 sq km--slightly smaller than the state of Montana.
Japan ranks 61st in the world in size and has a population as of 2008 of 127,288,000.
Which works out to about 336.9 people per sq. km.
Between 2002 and 2008 they experienced a growth rate of about 0.25%.
Considering all that it is amazing that the deaths from this tri-fold disaster are so small.
Tokyo sustained very little damage. Kind of sad that that has been overlooked. The Japanese know how to build earthquake resistant buildings like no other people on earth.
The loss of that prime agricultural land around Sendai will be a hard blow.