I was also talking earlier with my flatmate who's a radiochemist and works in nuclear medicine. he says the doses outside the immediate vicinity of
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mafic
Mar 17 '11, 08:42
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the plant are negligible, less than he receives in a typical day at work, and that the main dangerous isotope of iodine that's been released is actually one they use in therapeutic doses. says all you have to do to avoid absorbing it is dose yourself with regular iodine, which most of japan is anyway since seafood and seaweed are some of the best sources of it. basically said he'd worry more about the flight out of tokyo than hanging out in tokyo.
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