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It is good to read about the radiation risk. It is a very informative post. You have provided a wide range information it will help a lot. I am in the kanagawa prefecture where some hot spots were found and should I still be using bottled water?
Debora, You should definitely be concerned about radiation. Become more educated about the actual status of the continuing radiation problem now its August 5 months later! I have found the most reliable information comes from a nuclear engineer with over 20 years experience.
There are some things that you can do to help protect you. Hello, thanks for the useful information. I was wondering about how long might any contamination of car parts last, assuming it is inside or under the vehicle, where it cannot easily be washed by, say, rain water…?
How serious would exposure to safe or low levels be over a period of time? I guess what I am asking is it cummulative? Ingestion of very minute quantities of some radioisotopes can be a serious matter if these elements are incorporated into body tissue or bone mass.
From within the body, emissions of very low doses of radiation can be have significant health consequences. Gofman was a leader of the anti-nuclear power movement. Hi Peter, Radiation spread through air worries us, and at the same time, the risk of radiation intake through tap water and food is becoming another issue. Also, they announced that the excess level of radioiodine and radioactive cesium were detected from spinach near there note;it was measured without washing the spinach.
Japanese experts say even if we drink the milk, human body take in about microsieverts of radiation, and that number is far less than the dangerous level, and about the spinach, the radiation intake can be about one-twentieth of a CT scan when we cook it.
However, the agricultural cooperative association began to collect those food, and it is heartbreaking that milk cows and vegetables are disposed of… What is the exact level of radiation we should be careful of, regarding food and tap water?
Are there any kinds of safety limits similar to this in States? Through watching the news in both countries, I realize there is a differnce between them…especially about the radiation problem.
For example, America set the evacuation area within 80 kilometers from the nuclear power plant, on the other hand, Japan set it within 30 kilometers. All the people from other countries are now gone even from Tokyo, which really scares us. Thank you! But today [Monday, March 21, at 6 p. Hi Peter, Thanks for more details about the clear explanations for the numerical values of radiation with regard to Fukushima Nuclear Plants.
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Department of Energy, the horrifically innocent-sounding "Little Boy" exploded 1, feet above Hiroshima. It packed the power of 15, tons of TNT.
Tibbets recalled that "the city was hidden by that awful cloud Little Boy leveled every structure within a mile a shattered windows 12 miles away. The blast blew a boy through the window of his collapsing home and across the street. The searing heat "[burned] the dark patterns of clothing onto skin and the shadows of bodies onto walls. An estimated 80, people died on the first day alone. Radiation exposure would kill tens of thousands more in the months and years that followed.
According to Columbia University's Center for Nuclear Studies, between 90, and , people perished in Hiroshima "within the first few months" of the nuclear strike. The U. While some of these deaths resulted from the force and heat of the explosions, many also died from jaw-dropping levels of radiation. Live Science writes that a study looked at the dose of radiation absorbed by a the jaw of a Hiroshima victim who was less than a mile from the bomb's hypocenter.
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