For the science geeks out there.... here is the latest from Japan in terms of radiation strength...
* The Tokyo Metropolitan Government and other local authorities surrounding Japan’s capital city said Tuesday they have detected higher-than-normal radiation levels, but the amounts aren’t enough to cause immediate harm to the human body.
* They measured a radiation level of 0.809 microsievert per hour in the Shinjuku district in the western part of the city center at around 10 a.m. local time, about 23 times higher than normal. By late in the day it had fallen to 0.0682 microsevert an hour. The usual daily average is around 0.035 microsevert an hour.
* In Yokosuka, south of Tokyo, the radiation level hit as high as 0.212 microsievert per hour around 7 a.m., according to the Kanagawa Prefectural Government. But the level had fallen to around 0.1 microsievert per hour at around noon.
* The recorded level is a fraction of the 600 microsieverts that a human body receives from one x-ray.
* Exposure at the upper end of the range, at 400 millisievert, is equivalent to 40 rem. A single dose of 25 rem can cause temporary sterility in men. One hundred rems can cause radiation sickness and 500 rems likely will cause death. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission limits the exposure of U.S. nuclear workers to no more than five rem per year.
0.809 uSv/hr = 0.0809 mR/hr =
the radioactive dose received by standing next to 8 bananas for 1 hour
Thank you for the numbers.
Hard to get anything - much less real data - from the MSM.