US Navy carrier Crew exposed to radiation

[nadinbrzezinski]

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More on plant explosion: Nuclear agency says build-up of hydrogen caused the blast; not know if radiation leaked - BBC http://bbc.in/fQR67c
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Now I get it, why we went first.

[Bonobo]

1. What does this mean: "Now I get it, why we went first."? nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. I expected the Russians to go first

there is no love lost between Rusia and Japan. and due to wind, both the Kuriles and Vladivosok will be under the cloud.

I mean when the Kursk went down... you watched Japanese TV

[Bonobo]

3. Gotcha, nt

[Drale]

4. Any idea of how much radiation?

cause thats an important part

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Months worth a fairly low dose still

but as they say, there is NO low dose.

We are not happy.

[Drale]

6. but its not a fatial dose?

It could be much much worst.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. No, that would not be a fatal dose

of course nobody is going over how many rads or milliservs

I am used to rads, but that is ok. I need to investigate the other measure, since Japan is using it

[NutmegYankee]

10. 1 rad = 0.01 sieverts

so, with a biological N factor of 1.0, 1 Rem = 0.01 sieverts.

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. Thanks... I could not find the damn conversion

[NutmegYankee]

7. they said a months worth in 1 hour.

The average person gets 250-350 milirem (mrem) per year, so 300/12 is 25mrem. A chest x-ray is 8-10mrem. A cross country plane flight is 4 mrem.

In metric, this is 2.5-3.5 millisieverts (mSv), so 0.25 mSv.

This is a guess, but likely close.

[thewiseguy]

9. How far away were they from the sites?

[pokerfan]

11. 60 miles

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/world/asia/14plume.html

[roamer65]

13. Off shore wind blowing right now..according to CNN.

That is why the Raygun got it. Winds are expect to shift to onshore soon.