From what I gather, most likely not even all of the people in Japan will need any Iodine pills - let alone people here in the US.
Unless all the information sources are lying, I, living in Pennsylvania, am probably getting more radiation here at work sitting in front of an LCD screen with a couple hundred server towers and such across the room, than I would be getting standing on a beach on the west coast of the USA.
However, now that I'm aware iodine can help, I may research it a bit and buy some, since I DO live only 40ish miles from TMI, and I DO work in Harrisburg 5 days a week, so I might as well be ready...but I'll probably just forget I ever typed this inside 30 mins from now.
Ok so I'll get iodine, a Geiger counter, a containment suit and isolation unit if I can find it in stock.
I live in Riverside County, CA. where a Trace amount of radiation was detected. However as promised by the scientists it was somewhere between tens of thousands to a million times less than an amount that could cause any problems.
The side effects are too scary to be going around falling for the media hype that is trying it's best to gain ratings by over reporting a problem that isn't there, or should I say here.
If this becomes a problem we will be told in plenty of time to protect out thyroids.
By the way that is the only benefit from these pills. Yhey do nothing about any other form of cancer caused by exposure to radiation.
First source that study.
THEN you MIGHT have an actual point.
The fact is the only medical use of radiation (that I'm aware of) are x-rays
The Canadian Press: Tiny traces of radioactive fallout reach Europe from Japan, experts say
It's already spread through to iceland.
:shrug: it's part of the DOE, DTRA, NRC, NISA, and IAEA briefs that I read twice a day every day. On top of the reporting that I get from Sendai, USFJ, PACOM, JDIA, JGSDF, and all the OSINT.
i have an actual point. specifically i have the correct point. specifically because of the two of us, one of us currently has the job of breaking down precisely this topic every day, and that person (and it is not you) reads the radiation charts, plots the collection points, and compare/contrasts it to the levels of radiation you recieve in a given day.
that's perfect then. a regular chest X-Ray is about 200 u Sv. you are exposed to around 2,000 u Sv every time you take an international flight. most folks pick up 2,400 mSv in a given year (that's 2,400,000 u SV); that's your baseline. to give you an idea of how low even that number is, the current safety threshold for workers at the Fukushima plant is 2,500,000 u Sv / hour. (or 21,900,000,000 u Sv per year). they've pulled out a few guys for radiation treatment, but those guys were measuring around 1,300,000 u Sv to 1,700,000 u Sv; and the act was an abundance of caution measure.
oh. a u Sv is a microsievert, which is a thousandth of a millisievert (mSv), which is a thousandth of a sievert (S) which is the equivalent of a gray(G).....
look, here, take a look at the numbers yourself: Rad Pro Calculator: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) you can have a good time plugging in the amounts found anywhere beyond a 50 mile radius from the Fukushima plant and calculating how many centuries it would take you - recieving constant exposure to that amount - to be harmed.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) this might also help.
inches bridge of nose:
from your link: the concentration was "less than a millionth" of what was found in European countries in the wake of the 1986 Chornobyl disaster that spewed radiation over a large distance... "We thus conclude that there is no reason to worry about radioactivity levels in Iceland, nor anywhere in Europe, resulting from the nuclear accident in Japan," said Sigurdur Emil Palsson, head of emergency preparedness....
look, this is a problem for people in Japan. personally, i think at least a couple of those reactors are probably shot, and will need cementing. but you might as well start wearing tin foil hats "just to be on the safe side" as buy iodine pills in california as a response to this.
Just noticed how you left out the chemotherapy radiation in your analysis...
care to go over a bit of that??
well that didn't work at all; the files are too dang big. alright here:
TEPCO : Press Room | Press Releases
Fukushima Nuclear Accident Update Log
NISA - Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency
if you are so sure that in the US ya'll should be worried, spend some time on these sites here "so you understand the situation and are ready". you might be interested to learn that many of those explosions you cite are deliberate.
No, I'm NOT saying to be worried... because honestly, there haven't been ANY radiation detectors that have shown any significant increases in radiation. That said, the longer this drags on the more radiation gets expelled...
In this case the majority of the fallout is landing in the oceans, and so there's not going to be the same extent of health problems beyond Japan...
The nuclear industry DOES have a motivation in downplaying the extent of these problems though, so that must be factored in as well.
Preparedness is NOT the same thing as 'worry'. My grandparents didn't keep six months of reserve food in the basement because they FEARED that there would not be food on the shelves, they did it because in the off chance that something DID happen to the food supply that they would be better able to weather the storm.
Explosions at the plants deliberate?? I'd have to take your word on that one.
yes, bleeding off excess hydrogen is necesssary to reduce pressure build-up; however hydrogen explodes. better to have several smaller controlled explosions than one large uncontrolled one.
TEPCO absolutely has a vested interest in downplaying the damage, and they and the japanese have been doing so to one degree or another. however, this is the 21st century, and their ability to do so is severely hampered by the presence of the IAEA, the NRC, the US Military and various ISR assetts.
i'll be honest; if i lived on the northern half of the main island I would purchase iodine tablets under precisely the logic you are describing. but doing it in the US is.... well, my earlier analogy is still good; its like ducking and weaving as you leave your house in case any of the rounds from our shooting range over here have managed to fly across the pacific.
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