Yeah...and I've seen what Persians look like!
;-)
Posted on 03/19/2011 11:21:36 AM PDT by Somethng2ThnkAbout
6 WORKERS EXPOSED TO EXCESSIVE RADIATION @ FUKUSHIMA PLANT TOKYO, March 19, Kyodo
Six workers at the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have been exposed to radiation levels beyond the limit applied to an emergency operation, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Saturday, without elaborating on the work that they were engaged in.
They are continuing to work on different tasks because they have not shown any abnormal signs since being exposed to over 100 millisieverts of radiation, the utility said. The limit has been raised to 250 millisieverts for the ongoing crisis, the worst in Japan's history, by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry.
The government's Fire and Disaster Management Agency said separately that readings of up to 27 millisieverts of radiation were detected as of noon on around 50 employees of the Tokyo Fire Department who were decontaminated after spraying water earlier in the day at the plant's highly dangerous No. 3 reactor.
I disagree I find it informative and worth peoples time.
May God bless and protect these brave souls.
If it really is no big deal, why don’t people like you volunteer to work at their Ground Zero?
I worked as a flight attendant for 10 years and my thyroid is shot. My mom flew for 5 years and her thyroid is shot. My father was a pilot for 30 years (not including military) and he had prostate cancer at age 57.
What about flying does that?
They clearly figure they'd never find a better reason to die. The Japanese are giving the world an example of grace and gallantry here which is a wondrous contrast from what we all saw in New Orleans six years ago.
At the very least they are heroes because they are working to save lives under circumstances that are, at best, ambiguous. We all hope and pray that the doses they are receiving are insignificant, but who can be sure? God bless them.
If I had a useful skill and lived less than 6,000 miles from there, I would work there for the right price.
But I never said it’s “no big deal.” There’s a great deal of ground between “we’re all going to die” and “no big deal.” There is some hazard involved for those workers, but it’s not the death sentence many here seem to think.
Umbilical cord stem cells come from the umbilical cord -- something that used to be discarded when a baby has been born.
Research with embryonic stem cells has basically been a total failure -- so I would not want to be treated by this government-waste-of-money-project. Besides that, one has to kill an innocent baby to harvest embryonic stem cells.
Somewhat off topic, but leukemia has been treated and cured using umbilical stem cells...
I didn't post any "stats about airline pilots". I'm sure that airline pilots get higher doses than the general public (less shielding from cosmic rays by the atmosphere). I've never seen any data correlating their accumulated dosage with any negative health effects. But there is plenty of data to be found supporting radiation hormesis.
27 microSieverts?
That’s 10 times the amount of radiation you get from your spouse if you shared a bed for 8 hours a day over 50 years! Marriage—or even co-habitating—is a dangerous business. Whew... Charlie Sheen is taking smart precautions by swapping out the ladies instead of having them both at once...HE MIGHT GET A HEADLINE IN ALL CAPS!
Just think...this is the dose that an airline pilot gets on the job in a decade!!!! Good thing we make them retire after what, a year, just to be safe!
Except for one thing, a better headline would read:
SIX WORKERS RECEIVED ONLY 27 OR LESS MICROSIEVERTS EXPOSURE, EVEN AT STRICKEN PLANT! (the one thing being the all caps.)
Yes, it’s a significant acute exposure, and I believe low-grade chronic exposure isn’t as bad, but 100mSv whilst working in a damaged nuke plant and media going bananas (about 10,000 of them, perhaps)? Pfft.
Who said that’s 1% increase in cancer?!?
Yeah...and I've seen what Persians look like!
;-)
In a heartbeat, I'd be there, too, with full technical knowledge of the risk.
Yes ma’am, I hate to admit it but the Japanese culture is superior to American culture where every emergency is followed by looting of other’s property.
And there are places in Brazil and France that provide the inhabitants with about 800 mSv/year will no ill effect.
Here’s a few people who got hit by really high rads:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_K._Daghlian,_Jr.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_disaster
Oh my spewing diarrhea! I mean radiation... that was interesting.
A milliSeivert is 1 mSv or 1000 microSeiverts. 1 mSv/year is what the people in the region around Chernobyl got. 2.4 mSv is the world average. 27 microSv is getting in 88 days what someone would normally get in a year. But it would take 704 days at that exposure to reach the yearly standard for occupational exposure (20 mSv). To put that into perspective, natural background radiation in various places in the world is almost 30,000 times that of 27 microSeiverts. That is, someone receiving 27 microSeiverts/day would have to have that exposure for 81 years just to match what the inhabitants of places in Brazil and France get in the course of a single year with no ill effect.
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