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jpak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 07:52 PM Original message |
Food and water poisoned by Japanese nuclear leak 75 miles away (Mirror UK) |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 07:58 PM Response to Original message |
1. If one ate a kilo of contaminated spinach every day for a year, it'd be only 20% of a CAT scan. |
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jpak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 08:03 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. There is a reason why there are limits to the rad-contamination of food and water |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 08:11 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. The levels of contamination present are nowhere near those limits, as I've noted. |
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flamingdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 08:31 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. What is the safe limit for cesium-137 in the water, if you drink it |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 08:42 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. I don't know but the EPA says we all have some in our bodies due to cold war nuclear detonations. |
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flamingdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 01:36 AM Response to Reply #11 |
16. In a strange way that makes me feel better! |
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jpak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 08:08 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Those levels are harmful to children |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 08:18 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Interesting. How many kids in the US have CAT scans due to concussions or other illnesses, I wonder? |
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jpak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 08:25 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. not millions |
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FBaggins (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 08:40 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. But how many of them will drink this water at this level every day for a year? |
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jpak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 08:59 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Yeah - that's why the Japanese govt is contemplating an embargo of food from Fukushima |
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FBaggins (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 09:18 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Of course they are. Wouldn't you? |
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flamingdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 08:32 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Cat scans can be a problem, but they are quick, what about |
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flamingdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 08:07 PM Response to Original message |
3. This article doesn't use the teensy weensy description |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-19-11 08:47 PM Response to Original message |
12. “The Japanese don’t know how to deal with it. They’re ad-libbing." |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 12:31 AM Response to Reply #12 |
15. I was brainstorming w/ a friend on long term options. |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 09:28 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Not to mention THREE reactors in trouble, versus just one. |
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