Wool, cotton, and other natural fibers, would radiation be present within them too?

Yes, as particulates ie: dust. Check this story out:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110414/wl_asia_afp/russiajapannucleardisas...

Russia stops 50 radioactive cars from Japan

AFP – A sign with the nuclear hazard symbol stands in front of cars from Japan in the eastern Russian city … .– Thu Apr 14, 9:37 am ET
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (AFP) – Customs officials in far eastern Russia said Thursday they had stopped almost 50 secondhand cars shipped for sale from Japan that showed excessive radiation levels.

Customs officials stopped 49 cars with radiation levels up to six times above normal, while some vehicles had traces of the radioactive isotopes caesium-127 and uranium-238, said Roman Famin, who heads the regional customs' radiation monitoring department.

The radioactive cars started arriving at the Vladivostok port 10 days ago, but the government consumer watchdog has not made a decision on what to do with the contaminated cars, Famin said at a briefing.

"If the decision is not made, the port will be filled with radioactive vehicles," he said.

The Vladivostok port receives about 300 cars from abroad every day, its management said in a statement on Thursday, complaining that it would shortly run out of space to park the contaminated cars.

"If authorities don't make a decision about radioactive cars, there will be no place to store them after a while," port director Sergei Lopunov was quoted as saying.

The Russian Far East has always been a major hub for distributing used Japanese cars to the Russian market, although the business was hit by a recent tax hike on imports of secondhand cars, designed to protect the local industry.

Japan was hit by a tsunami and nuclear crisis last month and auto makers have been forced to slow production due to a shortage of parts.

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Please sign in to rate this comment down. 1 users disliked this commentJ K H Thu Apr 14, 2011 02:49 pm PDT Report Abuse Wow, this is going to get alot worse. Everyday TEPCO sits on their collective asses, those spent fuel rods (650,000) of them are exposed to air and wafting all around the globe killing people with cancer 10 years from now. not to mention, the three generations of newborns that will be deformed by altered DNA, and retarded and getting thyroid cancer! TEPCO is trying to salvage some of those spent fuel rods and anything else in those damaged buildings first before stopping emissions into the environment.
Got to make that all mighty dollar before health, but hey,...... that's good business! (GAG,GAG) THEY MAKE ME SICK and should be held criminally liable for this. This is murder.Reply.2 users liked this comment
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Please sign in to rate this comment down. 1 users disliked this commentBushLizard2U Thu Apr 14, 2011 07:11 am PDT Report Abuse I hear the 2011 Toyota's won't required headlights ..... they glow in the dark.Reply.1 users liked this comment
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Please sign in to rate this comment down. 1 users disliked this commentRichardHouston Thu Apr 14, 2011 10:01 am PDT Report Abuse Those are Transformers. Havn't you guys seen the movie.Reply.0 users liked this comment
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Please sign in to rate this comment down. 3 users disliked this commentShohei Thu Apr 14, 2011 08:40 am PDT Report Abuse Radiation levels up to six times above normal is not that bad at all.. harmless..

BUT yes, the world should be careful on checking things that are imported from Japan..Replies (3) 0 users liked this comment
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Please sign in to rate this comment down. 0 users disliked this commentB Thu Apr 14, 2011 04:05 pm PDT Report Abuse Yes, you honestly CAN get sick from it. You can get cancer from too much sun for the love of god....seriously, there's a reason why pregnant and "sick" people are told to stay away from those getting radiation treatments (radioactive iodine) for 3 months AFTER the last treatment. They don't do that because it's "safe"....it's because one isotope is all it takes to mutate a cell and cause cancer. Not everyone is blessed with the good fortune of not having a natural tolerance to fight off the disease..0 users liked this comment
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Please sign in to rate this comment down. 0 users disliked this commentShohei Thu Apr 14, 2011 12:49 pm PDT Report Abuse Well honestly, you can't die from radiation 6times above normal.. You can't even get sick from that..

One banana has an average radiation of 0.01 microSv. Chest radiograph gets 0.06 microSv. Average amount of radiation on cars are a lot lower than that. So think about it.

Driving cars that has 6 times the amount of radiation everyday isn't even close to eating 6 bananas everyday... bananas contains potassium-40, which has half life of about 1billion years.. You get more radiations from riding airplanes..0 users liked this comment
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Please sign in to rate this comment down. 0 users disliked this commentB Thu Apr 14, 2011 11:39 am PDT Report Abuse I wouldn't want to buy any type of radioactive car, be it 1 time or 6 times above "normal"....why take the risk?

Caesium 137 has a half life of just over 30 years....Uranium has a half life of 4 1/2 BILLION years (1.41×10 to the 17th seconds, 4.468×10 to the 9th years, or 4.468 billion years).

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Please sign in to rate this comment down. 0 users disliked this commentCandid Comments Thu Apr 14, 2011 03:40 pm PDT Report Abuse I heard thru my souces inside the "community" that the Russian Security Forces are planning to use the imported radioactive cars from japan as letahl weapons to kill the Enemies of the State instead of polonium because it's more cost effective.

It's going to drive the victims crazy when they start radiating political energy to change Russia's future.

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Please sign in to rate this comment down. 0 users disliked this commentRICO informant Thu Apr 14, 2011 03:35 pm PDT Report Abuse So much for the Toyota RAD huh?

Or maybe Toyota will change the name of that model if they haven't already.Reply.0 users liked this comment
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Please sign in to rate this comment down. 0 users disliked this commentJuan-Hung-Lo Thu Apr 14, 2011 06:51 am PDT Report Abuse Russian authorities noticed the radioactive cars, because the trees in the immediate ares, were humming.Reply..

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