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   From: Wayne    
      
   Alex Taylor wrote:   
      
   > 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   
   >    
      
   Glad to hear you're fine. I was on the verge of jumping on a plane a few   
   days after the disaster but I'm still "at work" here in Tokyo. I keep up   
   to date with Kyodo and Reuters and a few people I know are monitoring    
   radiation levels and posting information in another group so I feel "safer"    
   than I did, but my suitcase is packed ready to go! It would be a shame to   
   have to leave my business behind.   
      
   We were issued with iodine tablets by the British embassy here, about the   
   only useful thing they've done for "the average person" here. But with all   
   the other medication I'm taking am loathe to take unless I really have to.   
      
   Had a stroke last summer so I'm on all kinds of stuff. Funny, had a CT scan,   
   MRI and neck X-Rays all within a few days of each other so I've had more   
   than my fair share of radiation already :-)   
      
   Take care up there!   
      
      
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