The half life of the major radioactive element being emitted in Japan is 8 days. It is expected to be depleted to a non radioactive state in 60 to 80 days.
Sent from my iPhone On Mar 22, 2011, at 1:39, marbux <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Jim Darrough <[email protected]> wrote: >> The amount of radiation you can expect to receive is zero. Anyone who tells >> you that we in the U.S.A. are going to receive any dose at all is ignorant >> of how this works, or is trying to sell advertising. > > It's already happened, if I recall correctly in Seattle. See e.g., > <http://rt.com/usa/news/japanese-nuclear-radiation-reaches-usa/>. > There have also been reports that some passengers arriving at major > U.S. airports from Tokyo have been triggering radiation detectors at > the airports. > > I spent 20-plus years in no small part studying the fate of toxic > pollutants in the environment, as part of my legal practice suing > polluters and the government agencies that are supposed to regulate > them. I am also the co-author of three treatises on the subject of > toxic pollutants. > > In my studied opinion, when faced with airborne radioactive pollutants > whose half-lives are measured in the hundreds of thousands of years, > it is beyond question that the tendency of such pollutants to disperse > and to bio-accumulate in food chains leaves no room for doubt that the > contamination from the Japanese emissions will be global in scope. > > Best regards, > > Paul > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
