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   From: "Alex Taylor"    
      
   On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 02:06:29 UTC, Wayne  wrote:   
      
   > > 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.   
   >    
   > 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.   
      
   Hard to get a good sense of things, I know.  The Japanese media is   
   mostly saying "don't panic, it's not that bad", and all the foreign   
   media are practically saying the apocalypse is upon is.  I try to   
   ignore the reporters and politicians as much as possible and listen    
   to what the actual scientists are saying...   
      
      
   > 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.   
      
   Hah, the Canadian embassy has specifically told me they're NOT giving   
   out iodide pills.  And I'm only 45km from the reactor, so I guess you   
   have the advantage of me on both counts.  :P   
      
      
   > 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 :-)   
      
   Eep.  Take care of yourself.     
      
      
   --    
   Alex Taylor   
   Fukushima, Japan   
   http://www.socis.ca/~ataylo00   
      
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