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   From: "Alex Taylor"    
      
   On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:01:42 UTC, Wayne  wrote:   
      
   > Are you OK up there? Not thinking of evacuating? I legged it down to    
   > Osaka for a few days with my youngest son. Back in Tokyo now though   
   > but not sure after nearly 30 years if I want to be here any more!   
      
   I took a four-day vacation in Kansai about a week ago, but I'm back   
   in my usual haunts now.  There are slightly elevated radiation levels   
   here (last several days have been averaging just under 2µSv/h), but I    
   did some quick-and-dirty math and figured that even if I took the very   
   worst reading and assumed constant exposure to that level of radiation   
   24 hours a day, it would still take months to receive even the equivalent    
   of one CT scan.   
      
   http://www.town.kawamata.lg.jp/saigai/housyanou-sokutei.html   
   (The left-hand column is my area.)   
      
   Besides, I don't want to just take a hike from my job.  If it's still   
   safe enough for everybody else living here, why not me?   
      
   That said, I'm still watching the situation closely.  If the government   
   here ever does say "get out now" then I won't waste time arguing the    
   point. :p   
      
      
   --    
   Alex Taylor   
   Fukushima, Japan   
   http://www.socis.ca/~ataylo00   
      
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