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What if Japan becomes Uninhabitable ?


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#21 Sooth

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Posted 18 March 2011 - 08:16 AM

Yeah riiiiiight, exposure to the "minor radiation" being emitted from Fukushima is like eating a banana or getting a chest X-Ray. It's beneficial. It's good for them! <_<


When the Navy tried to teach me about radiation safety (quite a few years ago) the running joke was "a little bit of radiation is a good thing". Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors lived longer than the rest of the Japanese population. Which lives longer than the US population. There are other reasons for this -- obviously it's not the radiation. Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors received more frequent heath screening and that found other problems early.

At low radiation dose levels it's somewhere between difficult and impossible to detect any sort of a significant effect. If we err, we want to err on the side of caution. But I wouldn't lose any sleep over this even if I lived in California. I certainly wouldn't charter a flight to leave Japan or buy a supply of potassium iodide for $5000 on e-bay!

ALARP, is an acronym for an important principle in exposure to radiation and other occupational health risks and stands for "As Low As Reasonably Practicable". The aim is to minimize the risk of radioactive exposure or other hazard while keeping in mind that some exposure may be acceptable in order to further the task at hand. The equivalent term ALARA, "As Low As Reasonably Achievable", is more commonly used in the United States and Canada.


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Posted 18 March 2011 - 02:13 PM

Not to make light of Japans current problems, but to add a comparison NOT related to the "big wave" which will most likely total 15,000-20,000. They have other problems that may be bigger than the nuclear "expected" problem.

TOKYO —
The road traffic death toll in Japan during 2010 was 4,863, down 51, or 1%, from the previous year and marking the 10th straight year of decline, the National Police Agency said Sunday.

The figure, which fell below 5,000 in 2009 for the first time since 1952, decreased further last year owing to factors such as a rise in seat belt usage and a decline in the number of accidents caused by gross negligence such as drunk driving, the agency said.

The number of road traffic accidents during 2010 totaled 724,811, while the number of people injured in them stood at 894,281, both falling for a sixth consecutive year, according to the agency’s preliminary data.
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#23 arbman

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Posted 18 March 2011 - 08:03 PM

Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors received more frequent heath screening and that found other problems early.


This sounds like natural selection. I am thinking all of the normal or weaker ones probably died quickly right after the bombs and only the most resistant ones remained and they were meant to live long anyway...