Calm down and read about this guy who was in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki:
People who suffered the effects of both bombings are known as nij? hibakusha in Japan. On March 24, 2009, the Japanese government officially recognized Tsutomu Yamaguchi (1916–2010) as a double hibakusha. He was confirmed to be 3 kilometers from ground zero in Hiroshima on a business trip when Little Boy was detonated. He was seriously burnt on his left side and spent the night in Hiroshima. He arrived at his home city of Nagasaki on August 8, a day before Fat Man was dropped, and he was exposed to residual radiation while searching for his relatives. He was the first officially recognised survivor of both bombings.[106] Tsutomu Yamaguchi died on January 4, 2010, after a battle with stomach cancer at the age of 93.
If Tsutoma didn't succumb to cancer until he was 93 after being exposed to radiation from two A-bombs we are not going to get cancer if we don't wash our freakin' spinach here in the Bay Area. Seriously, relax. I bet those workers in Fukushima would trade places with us in an instant.
Phooey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petkau_effect
Just because one person can smoke from 14 to 94 and not get lung cancer does not mean smoking is "safe." Likewise for being at substantial distance from the hypocenter of two nuclear attacks, and not getting cancer.
People are different. Some can weather any biological or other hazards, and live to a ripe old age. Others end up in the hospital at the first whiff of pollen. Genetics, habits, and sometimes who knows mean different people have different outcomes.
There is only one certain safe level of fission products, and that is zero. Belief in a "safe" level above that is opinion only, not fact.
The US Government has a long, long history of lying to the American people (not to mention decades of human experimentation). That legacy coupled with current non-transparency regarding the Fukushima situation is leading to fear. We know the US Government, servants of the corporate empire, desperately wants a renaissance of nuclear power, and they were oh, so close, until March 11th, since people had fallen numb to the unavoidable dangers of nuclear power. It would be imprudent not to question the official insistence that "everything is A-OK."
My mother was an US Army
My mother was an US Army nurse who toured Nagasaki, with no type of protection, shortly after the bomb dropped. She is 90 and still alive. Aside from Osteoporosis she has had no other major health problems. Five or six of her nursing friends who were also in Nagasaki are still living, or have just passed on in the last few years.
She also said there didn't seem to be a higher or younger than normal death rate in people she saw, in passing, over the years.
I'm sure certain radiation levels were still fairly high at the time they were there, so I guess not everyone has to have super-genetics to survive this type of thing.
Not scientific but something to think about.
good for her, but the Japanese death tolls from cancer etc...
are well documented. I imagine that a lot of the blast may have caused initial exposure externally and the dust internally in days ands weeks after the blast, but I also imagine a lot of the blast material blew into the upper atmosphere (I have no idea how much radiation was released relative to Chernobyl or Fukushima) and blew away. Also if she were only there briefly and did not ingest water or food which was irradiated (she ate c-rations and safe water and powdered milk) then she might have been protected from INTERNAL dosing for the most part.
Again, the most serioius potential damage is for children and pregnant women and then everyone else.
There is some research that says that high one time external doses (like a blast or a "cross country plane trip") is not as bad as prolonged small particulate doses which can more easily penetrate cells when ingested (as second hand smoke more easily causes lung harm because it is smaller particles) especially on a prolonged basis. Somehow the research indicates that singular or small repeat exposures more readily penetrate and cause harm than a "wall" or wave of radiation.
The analogy I use is the difference (with respect to penetrating a cell and doing harm) is a ballon: hit it with a spoon or even the side of a dull knife and it does not burst or get penetrated but poke it with a needle (especially a hot needle) and it bursts. Imagine that that is what the decaying radioiodine is doing inside your thyroid gland and penetrating the cells, damaging them, and mutating/destroying dna which makes it work and function and live.
As a nuke bomb, most of the
As a nuke bomb, most of the energy is expended as instantaneous energy.
In the case of these reactors the energy isn't consumed therefore it lingers.
Use an analogy to dynamite. You can burn it and it smokes and stinks for a long time or you can institute the explosion which releases the energy quickly.
Right, radiation is good for
Right, radiation is good for you. Ann Coulter is that you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXFUUGeV1DI
Why don't you and Ann join the Fukushima 50? Telling people here to calm down about a real threat is asinine.
George burns lived a long
George burns lived a long life as a smoker, so therefore cigarettes do not cause cancer.
Do you really want to tell
Do you really want to tell stories about people who were exposed to radiation from an atomic bomb? I have a feeling the guy in your story was a serious minority. He is proof that anything is possible.
Calm down
Congratulations --- you located a survivor who apparently has superior genetics among the thousands who suffered insurmountable tumors and excruciating pain. Honest to God -- are you some sort of plant form the government? Sorry --people here are not that ignorant, although you don't have to be Socrates to use logic amongst the bull and right-wing propaganda.
When you are ready to REALLY prove your point to us, you will take your pampered private-school-educated children out for a couple of weeks camping under the stars in the mountains of Southern California... tell them to look up every night and breathe in deeply.
Yes I am a government plant.
Yes I am a government plant. I am a mutated Joshua Tree from Nevada's nuclear testing zone to be exact. And I am making my kids eat dirt so they can mutate faster into little right wing teabaggers. I sprinkle the Cesium coated soil onto their unwashed organic spinach from Trader Joe's. You know the more alarmist junk posted on this forum the more the sceintists at UCB will avoid replying to legitimate questions.
Alarmist?
I do not think anyone who is posting here is alarmist.
MANY of them are pregnant women or parents with children. You would do well to worry more about the remaining population of the US that refuses to recognize the implications of this threat. Because if they cannot see the implications, then they will have no imagination for the threat all of our reactors pose to the health of our country.
Just google Stuxnet Virus/Worm and watch some of the videos. There is now a super sophisticated virus sponsored most likely but OUR government and Israel. We are living in a world with VIRTUAL Nuclear time bombs ready to go off everywhere as super brilliant (and stupid) designs ways to sabotage utilities and power plants.
So back off concerned citizens and maybe start talking to the rest of America who continually has it's head in the sand with about most everything but American Idol.
And the use of nuclear related war still continues but no one wants to talk about it or protest what our government is doing.
http://projectsheffield.wordpress.com/2010/08/06/from-hiroshimanagasaki-...
But Steven Tyler is soooo
But Steven Tyler is soooo hot.