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You do appeciate that the Granite of the Lakes is quite radioactive don't you ? Where do you think that mud comes from ?
I have 5 European colleagues working/based in Tokyo, three of them with wife and teapot lids, as a precaution thay all left for H-K 2 weeks ago, this weekend thay are returning.
None of them have an issue with going back, it is their own choice, no preassure form the company.
.......read into it as you like but I know these guys well and if they had any reservations about the return then they would not leave H-K.
This.
The people who are telling you not to go are the kind that convince themselves they had swine flu and thought foot and mouth disease was going to be the end of humanity.
...and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/travel-and-living-abroad/travel-advice-by-country/asia-oceania/japan
Yes I appreciate that.
I also know that for years Sellafield was pumping out radioactive liquid into the Irish Sea at unacceptable levels and in the late eighties / early nineties BNFL spent £600M building an Enhanced Actinide Removal Plant to reduce the amount that was discharged. At that time there were several people within BNFL that queried why nothing was being done about replacing the original drainage system which was contaminated during the windscale fire as it was deemed to also be causing unacceptable discharge.
The main tidal flow from Sellafield heads towards the mudflats so draw your own conclusions.
There are plenty of granite mountains upstream of Sellafield but as far as I'm aware nowhere has the same level of radioactivity.
The radiation levels detected in Britain are at a very low concentration which are less than normal background levels of radiation. Increased levels of radioactive iodine in the atmosphere as may be present in Japan can collect in the thyroid gland and lead to thyroid cancer which can kill so it's not quite non-harmful
I'd go, then again, I'd go for a wander round Chernobyl given the chance.
OK so the highly radioactive clouds of steam which are rising from the plant aren't condensing and falling to earth as rain, the rain is not going down the surface water systems and these don't feed into the water treatment plants.
When they tackled the fire in the chimney at Windscale in the fifties the water contaminated the surface water sewers which feed into the North Sea. Those drains have never been replaced since and the coastline south of Sellafield (Ravenglass mudflats) are still showing very high levels of radiation. That was nowhere near the scale of this current situation.
The radioactivity in the steam has a half life of about 5 seconds.
It's the radioactivity getting into the water table following a meltdown that's the real risk.
That's what I've read anyway - there's a lot of conflicting info out there.
Much the same as what followed a similar incident at Windscale.
True, but then much of the problem seems to be that rolling news are DESPERATE for this to turn into a Chernobyl-style catastrophe.
Their "spokesperson" was called Con Allday.
Personally I'd err on the side of caution.
Much the same as what followed a similar incident at Windscale.
I wadnt gan if i was you because you might die in a toon armyWould you? Never been to Japan and would be well up for it normally but obviously with the nuclear thing it's a tricky time.
Have the right to refuse like...