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On April 25, YAMATANI Eriko, Member of the House of Councillors (National Diet of Japan) read an interview with Katsutaka Idogawa, mayor of Futaba, translated by Fukushima Diary
[...] Japanese government submit SPEEDI data to US and concealed it from Japanese people. Even now, SPEEDI data is not given to Futaba town.
[...] We were not even informed of venting.
[...] I’m losing my hair and have nosebleed everyday. The other day, I asked for blood test at a hospital in Tokyo because I’m exposed but they refused it. We were even exposed and there is even no treatment, or proper inspection. Medical check up for Fukushima citizens are not detailed enough either.
Unfortunately, radioactive fallout from the reactor leaks is going to hit the United States and Canada. Alaska, Hawaii and the west coast of the United States should prepare themselves for the invisible hazard that can rain down upon them within days or over the next weeks and months.
The wind paths will likely take the fallout to Alaska and Canada and the Northwestern coast of the United States first, but I expect we will see fallout in some small measure over most of the United States.
1)Stay indoors as much as possible. No joke. Don't schedule any outdoor events, picnics etc. The radioactive fallout will be light but you want to expose yourself to as few radioactive particulates as possible.
2) Buy a Geiger counter This is your own personal insurance device. You can test your environment at anytime for radiation levels above natural background radiation. The old pen sized clip-on dosimeters and readers designed for the CIVIL DEFENSE are still available from some sources but are not necessarily reliable after all these years.
3) Keep informed. Officials will be monitoring the fallout plumes as best they can. Unfortunately the government is not experienced in this and we disbanded the important CIVIL DEFENSE networks and centers across our nation. Now we see that they are necessary again. Planes, satellites and testing stations will be trying to track the plume. Unfortunately radiation is invisible and winds are extremely variable and can change speed and direction quite fast.
4) Don't panic. The radiation levels should be low. But to be quite honest, corporate officials always underplay the levels released from these things and because these are damaged reactors we don't exactly know what levels will be released over the next days, weeks and months. Hindsight is always 20/20. No one informed the crew of the USS Ronald Reagan that they were going to pass through a radioactive plume on their way to Japan. People make mistakes.
5) If you think you have been exposed. Take off your clothes and throw them away, wash yourself thoroughly and get checked by a hospital for contamination and any needed treatment.
Originally posted by Ben81
this is how bad the radiation can be .. and its spreading more effectively then any virus
Originally posted by alfa1
Originally posted by Ben81
this is how bad the radiation can be .. and its spreading more effectively then any virus
Errm... you do realise that the image you provided as the first and foremost representation of spreading radiation has nothing at all to do with radiation, right?
You do realise that this image is of the tsunami wave heights, right?
I'm not discounting your concerns, but I thought if you were going to show people how radiation spreads, then an image showing wind directions would be a more suitable image.
According to a United Nations (UNSCEAR) report published in 2008, the Chernobyl accident caused 0.065 million man-Sieverts radiation exposure to recovery workers and evacuees, 0.18 million man-Sv to the populace of Ukraine plus nearby Belarus and Russia, and a dose to most of the more distant European countries amounting to 0.13 million man-Sv.[1] The preceding figures are for 1986-2005, and about one-quarter as much will be received from residual radiosotopes over subsequent years.[1] The total global collective dose from Chernobyl was earlier estimated by UNSCEAR in 1988 to be "600,000 man Sv, equivalent on average to 21 additional days of world exposure to natural background radiation."
Originally posted by Qumulys
reply to post by Ben81
Because the radiation stops at the beaches?? Its a misleading picture, alfa1 is right to pick you up on it.
Originally posted by randyvs
reply to post by Ben81
What will they do with all the dead ? The whole earth is going to stink of death and rotting flesh.
Originally posted by samlf3rd
Well none cared when I tried to warn everybody:
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Originally posted by ipsedixit
Originally posted by pirhanna
Just an fyi:
You can't burn anything that is radioactive, because that puts it in the atmosphere. It has to be gathered, sealed and buried. That's all you can do with it.
Bioremediation projects using sunflowers have proven to be very effective at cleaning up radiation from ecosystems. You grow the sunflowers, which absorb soil radiation at a very high rate. then you harvest the plants, contain them and bury them.
Originally posted by randyvs
reply to post by Ben81
This seems like the one thing I'd rather go bliss about. What good will it do to know ?