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Zlasher
United States9129 Posts
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MoltkeWarding
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On March 17 2011 12:18 DarkwindHK wrote: The rumor is spreading so fast that all super markets in the bigger cities sold out their salt in mere hours(including normal salt, as people fear the sea is too polluted to produce salt from). If people even use their brain for a few seconds they should know it is completely illogical; if the sea is polluted that seriously, you will probably die already, why would you need salt? Ironically this rumor spread quickest in coastal cities!! Although the majority of casualties from radiation poisoning will occur within the initial days of exposure, the subsidiary effects never fade. An average person absorbs about 10 röntgens in his lifetime from background radiation. At round zero in the Chernobyl meltdown, the radiation exposure was 5 röntgens per second. That kind of exposure would kill you within minutes, but absorption of hundreds of röntgens among thousands of liquidators at Chernobyl still caused a variety of effects ranging from latent radiation burns and death within days to long-term lung failures and cancers. Basically being exposed to mildly high levels of radiation could considerably decrease your life-expectancy, even when it doesn't kill you outright. There are other worrisome parallels to the Chernobyl incident presently. There are very few reliable reports of radiation readings coming out of Japan at the moment, and apparently the Japanese Ministry of Health raised the minimum acceptable radiation dosage five-fold in the aftermath of this disaster, exactly the same measure taken in the Soviet Union 25 years ago. At the present time, radiation is still being emitted AFAIK, and two days ago, there were radiation readings around Unit 3 to the order of 400 msv per hour. Under those conditions, a person could probably be exposed for one hour safely, and about 10 hours before immediate mortal danger. Edit: Apparently since yesterday the readings around Unit 3 have gone up to 1000 msv per hour. It's still increasing. | ||
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Sufficiency
Canada23833 Posts
On March 17 2011 15:28 MoltkeWarding wrote: Although the majority of casualties from radiation poisoning will occur within the initial days of exposure, the subsidiary effects never fade. An average person absorbs about 10 röntgens in his lifetime from background radiation. At round zero in the Chernobyl meltdown, the radiation exposure was 5 röntgens per second. That kind of exposure would kill you within minutes, but absorption of hundreds of röntgens among thousands of liquidators at Chernobyl still caused a variety of effects ranging from latent radiation burns and death within days to long-term lung failures and cancers. Basically being exposed to mildly high levels of radiation could considerably decrease your life-expectancy, even when it doesn't kill you outright. There are other worrisome parallels to the Chernobyl incident presently. There are very few reliable reports of radiation readings coming out of Japan at the moment, and apparently the Japanese Ministry of Health raised the minimum acceptable radiation dosage five-fold in the aftermath of this disaster, exactly the same measure taken in the Soviet Union 25 years ago. At the present time, radiation is still being emitted AFAIK, and two days ago, there were radiation readings around Unit 3 to the order of 400 msv per hour. Under those conditions, a person could probably be exposed for one hour safely, and about 10 hours before immediate mortal danger. Edit: Apparently since yesterday the readings around Unit 3 have gone up to 1000 msv per hour. It's still increasing. I am not a physics or nuclear chemistry major so I don't know: but can this incident even produce isotopes of sodium or chlorine? It seems to me that even this is possible, they don't stay in the body for long. This is a bit different from iodine. | ||
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evanthebouncy!
United States12796 Posts
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Caphe
Vietnam10817 Posts
On March 17 2011 16:18 evanthebouncy! wrote: 傻逼。。。 lol, thats not kind man. You mean this to the OP or the people OP talking about | ||
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Sufficiency
Canada23833 Posts
On March 17 2011 16:18 evanthebouncy! wrote: 傻逼。。。 Please refer to TL.net Ten Commandments. May God have mercy on your soul. | ||
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fush
Canada563 Posts
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