Kilkrazy wrote:There's a guy who lives in Tokyo and set up a Geiger counter in his window several years ago to put the results on the Internet.

I followed his feed religiously for several months while my wife and daughter were in the danger zone.

Never did the count approach anything like as high as the normal background level found in Denver or Edinburgh.

You can assume his counter is a falsified feed that the Japanese government set up some years ago in case of a random nuclear disaster.

Filthy Sanchez wrote:Radiation does NOT build up in your body. Radiation sources, such as particles of uranium or plutonium that you ingest, will continue to emit radiation while inside of you, but radiation from a point source that you walk past will not somehow stay inside of you and build up.

And there ARE safe levels of radiation. The sun gives off a hell of a lot of radiation, and we've evolved past the point of it being "unsafe." Smoking a cigarette, besides all of the nasty chemicals involved, gives you a dose of radiation that in and of itself won't kill you. The dangers from exposure to radiation only pop up when it's high enough to slow-cook you, ala radiation poisoning, or causes enough damage to your cellular level DNA that your body can't correct past the mutations introduced and you develop all sorts of nasty cancer.

Kilkrazy wrote:There's a guy who lives in Tokyo and set up a Geiger counter in his window several years ago to put the results on the Internet.

I followed his feed religiously for several months while my wife and daughter were in the danger zone.

Never did the count approach anything like as high as the normal background level found in Denver or Edinburgh.

You can assume his counter is a falsified feed that the Japanese government set up some years ago in case of a random nuclear disaster.