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Originally posted by IncognitoGhostman
reply to post by FlyersFan
Is the camp you were at an Air Force base?
I ask because my step-son has just finished tech school and is heading to Japan for two years and have tried warning him to stay away or figure out a way to go somewhere else. I'm not sure if that's exactly where he's heading but will be home in a week for leave then heads over there.
Originally posted by USarmyFL
This really sucks.. Why them? They are some of the most civilized, nicest, caring people in the world.
Originally posted by PGRacer
Originally posted by USarmyFL
This really sucks.. Why them? They are some of the most civilized, nicest, caring people in the world.
Playing devil's advocate for a moment, maybe that's why. Caring sensible civilised people would be an enemy of TPTB. China has massive unused cities, Japan may need to evacuate. China is tightly controlled in tems of feedoms, Japan not so much.
It plays right into the hands of TPTB especially if the Japan quake was "man made".
Having said that I don't believe a word of it, but this is a conspiracy website and its there to see.
Originally posted by Human0815
reply to post by lover088
Please ask yourself why so many People who intensively Study the problematic situation in Fukushima
are not of your Opinion!!!
Do you ever read the Roadmap?
Do you ever watch the Cam?
Originally posted by BoneMosaic
ETA: She's from Osaka, is it dangerous to live there?edit on 13-12-2011 by BoneMosaic because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Danbones
this is a slow mo nuclear war
on the peeps
I have no link, but I do have a nuclear engineer in the family who is retired
he says in the long run we are effed
Originally posted by USarmyFL
Originally posted by IncognitoGhostman
reply to post by FlyersFan
Is the camp you were at an Air Force base?
I ask because my step-son has just finished tech school and is heading to Japan for two years and have tried warning him to stay away or figure out a way to go somewhere else. I'm not sure if that's exactly where he's heading but will be home in a week for leave then heads over there.
Find out if they are giving them Potassium Iodide pills. They are "anti-radiation" pills. I don't know how much they shield you but that is what they are for. They protect your thyroid but I don't know much about radiation and other parts of the body.
U
Most household smoke detectors contain americium formed in nuclear reactors. The radioisotope used is americium-241. The element americium is created by bombarding plutonium with neutrons in a nuclear reactor. Its isotope, Am-241 decays by emitting alpha particles and gamma radiation to become neptunium-237. The most common household smoke detectors use a very small quantity of Am-241 (about 0.29 micrograms per smoke detector) in the form of americium dioxide. The smoke detectors use the Am-241 since the alpha particles it emits collide with oxygen and nitrogen particles in the air. This occurs in the detector's ionization chamber where it produces charged particles or ions.
Originally posted by IncognitoGhostman
reply to post by FlyersFan
Is the camp you were at an Air Force base?
I ask because my step-son has just finished tech school and is heading to Japan for two years and have tried warning him to stay away or figure out a way to go somewhere else. I'm not sure if that's exactly where he's heading but will be home in a week for leave then heads over there.
Originally posted by Atzil321
reply to post by SquirrelNutz
It's not a great post... This is the headline ('Reactor 4 is falling apart, Arnie Gundersen said "If #4 collapses, get the hell out of Japan",) The first part is pure myth, the second part is pure sensationalism
Originally posted by BoneMosaic
ETA: She's from Osaka, is it dangerous to live there?
Natural Iodine goes straight to the thyroid gland. So radioactive isotopes of Iodine collect there.the "potassium iodide" pills merely saturate( fill up) the gland with harmless iodine so it is not collecting the radio active stuff.. there is no"shielding" to any part of the body including the thyroid.
Originally posted by USarmyFL
Originally posted by IncognitoGhostman
reply to post by FlyersFan
Is the camp you were at an Air Force base?
I ask because my step-son has just finished tech school and is heading to Japan for two years and have tried warning him to stay away or figure out a way to go somewhere else. I'm not sure if that's exactly where he's heading but will be home in a week for leave then heads over there.
Find out if they are giving them Potassium Iodide pills. They are "anti-radiation" pills. I don't know how much they shield you but that is what they are for. They protect your thyroid but I don't know much about radiation and other parts of the body.
U
The intake of potassium iodide tablets is recommended by the International Commission on Radiological Protection for the following dose levels:
0 – 12 years of age and pregnant women: 50 mSv and above
13 – 45 years of age (including breastfeeding mothers): 250 mSv and above
Adults of 45 years are recommended not to take iodine tablets by the ICRP, as the risk of serious thyroid disorders due to megadoses of iodine is greater than the radiation risk due to inhalation of radioiodine.
Cancer develops slowly, and in general carcinogenesis is much more dangerous to future health if it occurs earlier in life.
The most risk from radioiodine is caused by doses greater than the dose recommendations above, but less than 10 gray of organ dose. Above that value, the thyroid is destroyed, rendering thyroid cancer development impossible. Radioiodine can be administered purposefully in large doses to thyroid cancer patients, specifically to destroy the thyroid and the cancer along with it.
The thyroid gland is not necessary to live.
Although potassium iodide is usually harmless, the thyroid may react to large doses of iodine, causing goiters and other problems. Although seafood allergies are often confused for iodine allergy, as seafood contains high amounts of iodine, seafood allergies are typically caused by proteins including parvalbumins in fish and tropomyosins in crustaceans and mollusks. O
nly very rarely are humans allergic to iodine itself, though this should not be taken to mean that taking large doses of iodine entails no risk of side effects.