Number of people that HAVE TESTED POSITIVE for elevated radiation levels is 160

[Tx4obama]

From the Al Jazeera Live Blog

Yesterday, we reported that three people had tested positive for elevated radiation levels. That number has now jumped to 160, says a Japanese nuclear safety official.

http://blogs.aljazeera.net/live/africa/japans-twin-disasters-march-13-liveblog

Also, from the link above...

First it was 6,000 - then 45,000... Now about 140,000 people have been told to evacuate areas near the two Fukushima nuclear power plants following Friday's earthquake, said the UN atomic watchdog. The International Atomic Energy Agency said:

Evacuations around both affected nuclear plants have begun ... but full evacuation measures have not been completed.

[Thunderstruck]

1. We're not allowed to post bad news about the nuclear disaster...

[Tx4obama]

3. What are you talking about? n/t

[Paradoxical]

2. Likely from the dust cloud created by the explosion.

BBC was reporting that several people were exposed to radiation while they stood on top of a hospital building near the plant.

[thewiseguy]

4. How much radioactivity was released is the question.

[Paradoxical]

5. My guess is a lot.

And by a lot I don't mean Chernobyl a lot. I mean enough to be dangerous to anyone within a several miles of the plant.

[Tx4obama]

6. Watch the film 'Silkwood'

They say there is NO safe level of radiation from a nuclear plant.
An amount from a nuclear reactor that would fit on the top of a pin will kill you.

[Paradoxical]

7. Radiation is radiation.

Any amount of ionizing radiation is harmful on some level.

You are exposed to ionizing radiation from everyday activities.