Fukushima Residents Peeing Out Radiation

[Poll_Blind]

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From Gizmodo

The spread of radioactive material just kilometres away from their source has its consequences. It doesn’t just sit in the dirt – it finds its way into human bodies. And now it’s in their pee.

Digital Journal, Radiation in urine found in residents near Fukushima:

Around 15 residents in the village of Iitate and in the town of Kawamata, located about 20 miles from the site of the Daiichi nuclear meltdown,, were found to be passing radiation in their urine, with some experts saying there “won’t be a problem” if vegetables are not consumed.

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More than 3 millisieverts of radiation was discovered in the residents, it was confirmed this week. Levels of radioactive iodine as high as 3.2 millisieverts were found in six people, with total exposure levels over two months since radiation leaks began measuring between 4.9 and 14.2 millisieverts.

International Business Times (IBT) notes these levels are much higher than estimated 20 millisieverts annual radiation exposure.

How will further testing be carried out?

From The Daily Yomiuiri Fukushima starts internal radiation checks:

A total of 120 people, chosen randomly from the three municipalities, will receive such examinations. Based on the institute's findings, the prefectural government plans to establish simple methods to check dosages of internal radiation, a Fukushima prefectural official said.

Most of the remaining residents of the three municipalities will be checked through statistical estimations using questionnaires.

They will be asked what they did and where they went, for instance, after March 11, and based on their responses, the prefecture will estimate the amounts of radiation suspected to have accumulated inside their bodies.

Prefecture-wide health checks were to start in August, and also will employ such statistical estimations.

PB

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Hold it, all is well, or did your dog eat that memo?

My conures went to taks on it... shards, so small I cannot get that jigsaw puzzle to work.

[flamingdem]

3. +1

he he

[Poll_Blind]

4. There's the rub: I only have a cat and she scorns most literature I provide her.

It's all Harlequin novels or nothing at all...

:rofl:

PB

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. I am sure she shredded the memo

using her lovely claws, or did you have her declawed?

[Poll_Blind]

8. You know, now that I think of it...

She was prowling around the house in a paper nurse's cap as of late. They accommodate kitty ears surprisingly well. I'll have to see if it turns up. If she's been using my memos for origami projects...well, I'll probably have to de-tin another plate of tuna for her.

PB

[flamingdem]

2. Gotta love those experts - "won't be a problem"! happy day nt

[AndyTiedye]

5. Dead Men Walking

much higher than estimated 20 millisieverts annual radiation exposure

Yes, and it's coming from INSIDE their bodies. How much radiation were they exposed to to cause that?

These people will need lead chamberpots as their pee is dangerously radioactive.
They probably won't need them for very long however. :cry:

[defendandprotect]

6. Sad -- but predictable -- thanks for the info --

[anthroman]

9. Japan is screwed

but so is the Northwest, and Canada, and Hawaii. Amazing they are not trying to put up a tent of sorts to try to contain the radioactivity. Tuna and other Pacific fish are going to be 'hot', it will effect us all in the long run. Cancer rates will be going up within a few years. Along with the Gulf Oil Spill and Fracking, we are all screwed long term. Too many people, to toxic an environment. Too few trees in the Amazon. More ice melting, more earthquakes, unreal.

[Liberal_in_LA]

10. ewww