Canada and the Nuclear Issues

So, watching CBC for some reason (yet to figure out why) and they are reading off some warnings from the Canadian government for all the Canadian citizens in Japan. There is no advisory letting people know that leaving the country would be safest, because apparently Canada's data doesn't show the Nuclear situation as that dangerous yet.

Hurr to the durr, way to be Government of Canada. Obviously its not that dangerous yet, every country on planet Earth agrees with that and understands it. That's not the reason other countries are evacuating their citizens. Its due to the fact that this could potentially turn into a severe Nuclear crisis and its best to be a good distance from Japan.

(By "obviously its not that dangerous yet", i'm comparing the current Nuclear situation to what it COULD become. Obviously it is dangerous, but not near as bad as it could get)

Nuclear Disaster, and the Media

So i'm from Canada eh, and we don't exactly have the finest news establishments here, well in my eyes anyways. Well either that, or my cable sucks. With this, I usually stick to watching CNN to get the important international news.

While watching reports from Japan, I couldn't help but get annoyed that they were live for a few hours of the day, and the rest of the time it is just repeated over and over again.

Now the next big thing, was the stupidity of the reporters. They were all amazed when they found out radiation can be pushed around by the wind. Elliot Spitzer is on saying he only thought radiation was like gamma rays and x-rays and can only move in one direction!!!!11 How can the wind move the radiation around!!!??? Then the meteorologist and himself discuss how they just learned this yesterday.

Apparently these reporters forgot all about Chernobyl. They also forgot that certain elements such as Cesium, Uranium and Strontium give off toxic radiation.

I mean who could have known toxic radioactive elements used in nuclear reactors could be pushed around by the wind!

Fucking radiation, how does it work?

Everyone has forgotten about 2004?

I love watching the news, and of course the most popular story right now is the one taking place in Japan, after the 8.9 earthquake, and the intense tsunami that has hit the coast. It is extremely amazing to see the power of mother nature, but at the same time, saddening to see the loss of life, which is expected to have already surpassed 10,000.

With this though, I look back to 2004, when the Indian Ocean Tsunami hit Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, and other places killed over 230,000 people.

Has everyone forgotten about this?