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   From: "ivan"    
      
   On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 02:06:29 UTC, Wayne  wrote:   
      
   > 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 2Sv/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!   
   >    
   Hi Wayne,   
      
   Have a read of these to put your mind a rest.  Unless you are living    
   in the reactor compound there is nothing to be concerned about it is    
   all hype in the press.   
      
   http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/14/fukushiima_analysis/   
   http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/15/fukushima_update_tuesday/   
   http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/16/fukushima_wednesday/   
   http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/17/fukushima_thursday/   
   http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/18/fukushima_friday/   
   http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/21/fukushima_after_weekend_2/   
   http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/22/fukushima_tuesday_2/   
   http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/23/tokyo_tapwater_fukushima/   
   http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/25/fukushima_scaremongering_debun   
   k/   
   http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/29/tv_news_goes_hollywood/   
      
      
   ivan   
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