Radiation

[ngmunling]

Originally Posted by acjama

When ingested, radioactive particles will be passed just like any food within a day (iodine-131 excluded, of course). This is why they said plutonium is not so dangerous when ingested - it will not accumulate and it's emission is mostly weakly interactive gamma type, plus that the possible amounts for ingestion are extremely small. Not much escaped Fukushima. Of course this implies the best possible dream-land scenario that everything will be all right very very soon

PLutonium accumulate in the bones even in small amounts. So....

[ngmunling]

Thank you everyone for your suggustions.

I realised that the limit of I-131 & Cesium were increased 10 times than before the disaster. Any debate on this?

[acjama]

Originally Posted by ngmunling

PLutonium accumulate in the bones even in small amounts. So....

Huh? Oh yeah, so it does. There's always something... Thank you, updated my medical database. That part has lacked somewhat.

Originally Posted by ngmunling

I realised that the limit of I-131 & Cesium were increased 10 times than before the disaster. Any debate on this?

Might shine some light on the subject to say "increased from what value to what value".

But just in case, if that is data from the KEK institute, I'd like to remind that that is NOT statistical data for the whole country/prefecture. This is point measurement, and air currents change concentrations. Weather patterns around Fukushima have been weirdly linear, and you'd get different measurements results elsewhere.

[samokan]

Originally Posted by ngmunling

I see. How do you know? Are they labelled? (pardon me for asking such a funny question)

Of course. I would not have known if they were not, and that is why you have to learn how to read Kanji

[samokan]

Originally Posted by Sangetsu

It's funny to listen to salarymen talking about how bad radiation is for people's health, especially after having smoked a couple packs of cigarettes during the day, living on beef bowls, ramen, and beer for 5 days each week, and averaging 5 hours of sleep each night. Some have breath so bad that it kills flying insects and makes small children cry. Radiation poisoning should be a little closer to the bottom on their list of concerns.

SOOOOO true.. And don't make me start about the bad breath

Even here in Osaka, there are some events where they sell produce from Tohoku area and by the end of the day, all items were sold out. It just goes to show that majority of the population are not concern with the radiation.

[acjama]

Originally Posted by samokan

SOOOOO true.. And don't make me start about the bad breath

Much easier to protect a nation from fallout and cure cancer than make a salaryman wash his hands after toilet.
My wife had a name for that peculiar smell especially old salarymen have. What was that again...?

[samokan]

Originally Posted by acjama

Much easier to protect a nation from fallout and cure cancer than make a salaryman wash his hands after toilet.
My wife had a name for that peculiar smell especially old salarymen have. What was that again...?

rotting/decaying smell ?

[JohnBraden]

Originally Posted by acjama

Much easier to protect a nation from fallout and cure cancer than make a salaryman wash his hands after toilet.
My wife had a name for that peculiar smell especially old salarymen have. What was that again...?

Listernaught?
Scopeless?

[acjama]

Originally Posted by JohnBraden

Listernaught?
Scopeless?

Actually I meant the chemical "kareishuu" (加齢臭), but those too are... are...
I don't know what the first one means.

[JohnBraden]

Originally Posted by acjama

Actually I meant the chemical "kareishuu" (加齢臭), but those too are... are...
I don't know what the first one means.

Listerine + naught = listernaught!