My mom is freaking me out - Japan fallout

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
The level of radiation you'll be exposed to from Japan is very low -- it may raise the incidence of cancer by .0001% or something. Flying on an airplane or getting an x-ray from your dentist will expose you to way more radiation than eating produce from California. You're fine, and your mom needs to stop getting you worked up.

Although, you might fly on an airplane just one time a year. But if you are a 12 month old baby drinking milk from cows on the West coast, that ate grass covered with radioactive particles, and also drank a lot of rainwater or ate a bunch of spinach, every day for 3 months -- that exposure MIGHT be a bit more than flying on an airplan just once, right?

(Not that I'm worried about my kids, I'm just using this as an example of how the risks might be different. My own kids would LOVE to have the excuse not to eat spinach.)

[Anonymous]

It's all part of most conspiracy theories, which will deny any "credible" research put out by the government.

Having looked into this area, I can't say that I actually trust the government 100% at this point. However, I'm also not living in a log cabin in Montana surrounded by my guns and150 acres. So I wouldn't exactly freak out, but I would do more research if I were you.

Unfortunately, I'd direct you to HAARP, but the main site is no longer active. According to conspiracy theorists, HAARP can manipulate weather. So the latest quake in Japan was planned, according to some.

Here is general wiki info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Frequency_Active_Auroral_Research_Program

Here is conspiracy info - http://haarp.net/
Scroll down to read the information.

[Anonymous]

Thanks Penguin Six. Here's what the CDC says about taking (or not) potasium iodide after age 40:

Adults older than 40 years should not take KI unless public health or emergency management officials say that contamination with a very large dose of radioactive iodine is expected. Adults older than 40 years have the lowest chance of developing thyroid cancer or thyroid injury after contamination with radioactive iodine. They also have a greater chance of having allergic reactions to KI.

[Anonymous]

David Letterman is on a rant about Indian Point in New York State. He is a renowned alarmist and all round germa-phobe, but I think the point is not that unreasonable. Take it down. It
s just too mucking fuch that it is so close to people. Take it down: (audio is a little out of sync)

[Anonymous]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Itr6GDuOOBY&feature=player_embedded

at 5 minutes she advises taking iodine.

[Anonymous]

OP, you need to learn a valuable skill...tune your retired mom OUT! When she gives advice just nod, say "uh-huh," and the proceed to forget whatever she says.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, you need to learn a valuable skill...tune your retired mom OUT! When she gives advice just nod, say "uh-huh," and the proceed to forget whatever she says.

So this is the reaction to what the PP at 04/20/2011 12:56 posted?

seems a bit ignorant to me

[Anonymous]

My mom is terrified of all that happens on the local news. Just tune it out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, you need to learn a valuable skill...tune your retired mom OUT! When she gives advice just nod, say "uh-huh," and the proceed to forget whatever she says.

So this is the reaction to what the PP at 04/20/2011 12:56 posted?

seems a bit ignorant to me

No bitch, it's in response to the OP's OP.

[Anonymous]

It's the bitch. Thanks for the compliment.

So - I'm assuming you didn't view any of the clips people shared? And if you did, you'd STILL tell OP to turn her mother out?

ignorant, as I said earlier

And nice of you to tell OP to "tune" her mother out - really nice

Sincerely,
THE Bitch on the Board

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, you need to learn a valuable skill...tune your retired mom OUT! When she gives advice just nod, say "uh-huh," and the proceed to forget whatever she says.

So this is the reaction to what the PP at 04/20/2011 12:56 posted?

seems a bit ignorant to me

No bitch, it's in response to the OP's OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think many people don't realize how big the Pacific Ocean is. Although the severity of the accident has been rated as equivalent to Chernobyl, there was much more radiation released into the atmosphere from the Chernobyl accident. The furthest measurable radiation exposure from the Chernobyl accident was 700 miles away. Japan is 5,000 miles away from the U.S.

Well if you remember Chernobyl then you remember Europeans going shopping for food with geiger counters. The concern with Japan is the air currents across the oceans. California has issues from sand blowing from Asia with their air/weather.

You didn't seem to get my point, so I'll try again. At Chernobyl, the graphite in the reactor core caught fire and dispersed a massive amount of radioactive particles in smoke that blew across Europe on the "air currents," as you put it. This was a much greater release than has occurred in Japan so far. The furthest measurable radiation was found 700 miles from Chernobyl. The official position of the Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is that there is no way that any radiation levels of concern will travel 5,000 miles to California. There is a lot of experience with tracking the dispersion of radiation from the hundreds of atmospheric nuclear tests conducted by the U.S. and the USSR and others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

You didn't seem to get my point, so I'll try again. At Chernobyl, the graphite in the reactor core caught fire and dispersed a massive amount of radioactive particles in smoke that blew across Europe on the "air currents," as you put it. This was a much greater release than has occurred in Japan so far. The furthest measurable radiation was found 700 miles from Chernobyl. The official position of the Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is that there is no way that any radiation levels of concern will travel 5,000 miles to California. There is a lot of experience with tracking the dispersion of radiation from the hundreds of atmospheric nuclear tests conducted by the U.S. and the USSR and others.

Not the pp you are responding to but, OK, that's the official position... but did you watch the two videos? Do you still agree with the official position?

[Anonymous]

Well your mom and I should meet for coffee or tea because I'm with her. I have a child with autism so yeah I don't put a lot of stock in what the government tells me is safe. I am the last person people would ever predict would be a farm girl, but I would love to turn my house into a farm, grow more vegetables, buy some chickens and roosters and be able to feed my family with food I trust. My husband laughs but he also knows I'm completely serious and may take on the HOA to expand my garden .

Re:iodine...that's a prickly thing because supposedly it can prevent thyroid issues, but also cause them. I say stick to your salt with iodine for now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

You didn't seem to get my point, so I'll try again. At Chernobyl, the graphite in the reactor core caught fire and dispersed a massive amount of radioactive particles in smoke that blew across Europe on the "air currents," as you put it. This was a much greater release than has occurred in Japan so far. The furthest measurable radiation was found 700 miles from Chernobyl. The official position of the Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is that there is no way that any radiation levels of concern will travel 5,000 miles to California. There is a lot of experience with tracking the dispersion of radiation from the hundreds of atmospheric nuclear tests conducted by the U.S. and the USSR and others.

Not the pp you are responding to but, OK, that's the official position... but did you watch the two videos? Do you still agree with the official position?

Yes, and yes. Helen Caldicott has made a career out of being anti-nuke. You don't trust Chairman Jaskow of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (who was hand-picked by Majority Leader Reid -- who is far from a fan of the nuclear industry), but you are going to blindly believe Helen Caldicott? I do have to admit that I didn't watch the entire Leuren Moret video -- after I counted six factual errors in the first five minutes of her talk, I decided that I was about to waste an hour of my life that I would never get back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
The level of radiation you'll be exposed to from Japan is very low -- it may raise the incidence of cancer by .0001% or something. Flying on an airplane or getting an x-ray from your dentist will expose you to way more radiation than eating produce from California. You're fine, and your mom needs to stop getting you worked up.

Although, you might fly on an airplane just one time a year. But if you are a 12 month old baby drinking milk from cows on the West coast, that ate grass covered with radioactive particles, and also drank a lot of rainwater or ate a bunch of spinach, every day for 3 months -- that exposure MIGHT be a bit more than flying on an airplan just once, right?

(Not that I'm worried about my kids, I'm just using this as an example of how the risks might be different. My own kids would LOVE to have the excuse not to eat spinach.)

No. In this case, that will not be so.

Also, you get more radiation from eating bananas (not radioactive Fukushima bananas, but regular ones) because of K40. So, if you wanna freak out, go ahead, but our bodies are well used to dealing with small amounts of ionizing radiation all the time.