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Jay asked in TravelAsia PacificJapan · 1 decade ago

If you were in the rain that just hit the west coast, would you have been exposed to radiation from Japan?

If you were in the rain that just hit the west coast, would you have been exposed to radiation from Japan?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    I'm near San Francisco, no radiation problems here.

  • 4 years ago

    it is going to likely be a continuous sluggish drip of tasteless odorless, and invisible sluggish demise for the time of, and around the jetstream. some will boost in maximum cancers, and delivery abnormalities for a pair years. submit to in strategies, Chernobyl unfold in the process the Northern Hemisphere in a remember of weeks contained in the direction of the ambience. Nuclear meltdowns emit 1000 circumstances extra radioactivity into the air over the direction of a meltdown than the traditional nuclear warhead. i'm no longer fearmongering as maximum ignorant people might say. yet definite maximum will fall into the sea alongside its course, yet some hitches a experience on the jetstream, and via the seems of issues, we are no longer being advised the reality approximately how undesirable the Fukushima concern extremely is. thinking a stockpile of weapons-grade spent plutonium rods have been ontop of the containment facility that blew up in Fukushima 3 which contain the plutonium enriched MOX gasoline they use for that reactor, that meltdown via how. only in-case your waiting for government to substantiate that view for you. FYI, plutonium is 1000 circumstances extra deadly than uranium. Chernobyl by no means emitted plutonium. All in all, i think this makes Chernobyl look like a Sunday picnic. We only don't be conscious because of fact the jap inhabitants hasn't been affected as a lot. it is because of fact the final public of the radioactivity is being taken out to the Pacific ocean. practice your self consequently, and stay indoors and out of the rain in case you reside on the West coast. stable luck :)

  • 1 decade ago

    Possibly a little, but not as much as the radiation you're being exposed to sitting in front of your computer right now.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    yes, there is a possibility. wash yourself thoroughly to remove any radiation and do dispose of your clothes that were exposed to the rain in vinyl bags.

    you shouldn't be at the beach either since radioactive iodine was detected in sea water as well.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    If Columbus had taken a whiz over the side of his boat on his way across the Atlantic, and all the water got mixed perfectly, you would almost certainly get a molecule or two of his pee in a mouthful. Does that bother you?

  • 1 decade ago

    Where did you get this info from Mr paranoia? relax it is not that bad

  • 1 decade ago

    not yet

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