Residents' urine now radioactive Fukushima
More than 3 millisieverts of radiation has been measured in the urine of 15 Fukushima residents of the village of Iitate and the town of Kawamata, confirming internal radiation exposure, it was learned Sunday.
Both are about 30 to 40 km from the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, which has been releasing radioactive material into the environment since the week of March 11, when the quake and tsunami caused core meltdowns.
Radiation nephropathy
Excerpts:
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/243766-overview
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/243766-overview#aw2aab6b2b2aa
Radiation nephropathy is kidney injury and impairment of function caused by ionizing radiation. It may occur after irradiation of 1 or both kidneys, and it may result in kidney failure. The term nephritis was commonly used in the past; however, because radiation nephropathy is not an inflammatory condition, the term nephropathy is probably more appropriate. For older reports, the term nephritis will be used.
Radiation nephropathy is due to cellular injury caused by ionizing radiation. All components of the kidney are affected. In the case of injury by radionuclide(s), a radioactive substance can injure the kidneys if it lodge(s) in the kidney during a time when it is still a radioemitter.
Oxidative injury to the DNA initiates injury to healthy tissue by ionizing radiation. This is a genotoxic injury. A cell with sufficient DNA injury eventually dies after several divisions. The delay in cell death may partially explain why radiation injury to healthy tissue is a delayed reaction. In clinical experience, radiation nephritis does not occur until months after the kidneys are exposed to sufficient ionizing radiation.
Not all patients exposed to sufficient renal irradiation develop renal injury. The reason for this clinical variability is unknown. No reliable clinical predictors are available for the development of radiation nephritis. Some individuals may develop radiation nephritis at a dose of radiation that has no clinical effect on others.
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http://www.naturalnews.com/032838_urine_radioactive.html
Where are the urine tests for residents of our west coast????
It's not that they found 3
It's not that they found 3 mSv of radiation in anyone's urine, but that they used urine analysis to determine the internal dose received by evacuees from those populations.
Link?
It specifically says more than 3 mSv of radiation has been measured in the urine. Please provide a link. I can't believe your statement without one.
Also, if it's 3 mSv in the urine, the internal dose would be much larger.
"The researchers, including
"The researchers, including doctors who have provided medical care to A-bomb survivors, conducted analysis on the food and urine of 15 residents in Iitate Village and Kawamata Town in Fukushima Prefecture. These areas are about 40 kilometers from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
They estimate that residents have been internally exposed to up to 3.2 millisieverts for about 2 months, measuring from the date of the accident in March until early May."
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/24_02.html
The link is in the OP. Just
The link is in the OP. Just click where it says read more.