They are continuing to work on different tasks...
God Bless them.
A typical radiation dose is 2-3 millisieverts PER YEAR.
Yes indeed. Such fortitude. Such sacrifice. Heroes.
What is a millisievert compared to a rad?
These people are the real heroes! Sacrificing their lives to save others.
Hopefully they are quarantined so it doesn’t turn into a global pandemic.
I’ve heard from reliable sources at CNN and Fox News, that a heavily radiated person can be highly contagious, become very aggressive, and grow fangs. In essence, they become very right wing extremist and sometimes even become Christian. Might just be best to put them out of their misery, for the sake of the children.
Yes, unfortunately, we’re seeing the worst carp scenario.
God bless and be with them and their families
BUT GEDDA LOAD OF THIS..!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sELJPnwC8aI
Nooooothing 2 worry about, riiiiiight....?
Almost makes you think it cute, eh?
Good God...!
LIARS, COMMIES, ANTI-NUKE FEAR MONGERS! THERE IS NOTHING WRONG AND EVERYTHING IS UNDER CONTROL!
100 millirems used to be allowed per day in normal work conditions, with a max of 5,000 in a given year. But that was 15 years ago.
They got 10 years max in just days.
Under "normal" conditions, they got a careers worth of exposure in the last few days.
Whats even MORE IMPORTANT than radiation exposure, is having a whole body count.
Exposure just tells you what you HAVE BEEN exposed to in a period of time. A whole body count lets you know if radioactive contamination has been absorbed or inhaled into the body. This CONTINUES to irradiate the area. THIS can be NASTY
The plus side is, they can now walk into a room and turn the lights on, without turning on a light switch.
100 millisieverts is the lowest level of radiation exposure at which a statistically significant increase in the incidence of cancer is discernable.
Ten times that - 1,000 millisieverts - increases the incidence of cancer by five percent. Fifty times that - 5,000 millisieverts - has a 50% fatality rate over a period of one month.
So while 100 millisieverts is not exactly trivial, it's not like these guys are likely to die of it, or even get sick.
“Recommended limit for volunteers averting a major nuclear escalation - 500 mSv (according to the International commission on Radiological Protection)
Recommended limit for volunteers rescuing lives or preventing serious injuries - 1000 mSv (according to the International commission on Radiological Protection)
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Below is a list of signs and symptoms likely to occur when a human is exposed to acute radiation (within one day), in mSv:
0 to 250 mSv - no damage
250 to 1,000 mSv. Some individuals may lose their appetites, experience nausea, and have some damage to the spleen, bone marrow and lymph nodes.
1000 to 3000 mSv - nausea is mild to severe, no appetite, considerably higher susceptibility to infections. Injury to the following will be more severe - spleen, lymph node and bone marrow. The patient will most likely recover, but this is not guaranteed.
3,000 to 6,000 mSv - nausea much more severe, loss of appetite, serious risk of infections, diarrhea, skin peels, sterility. If left untreated the person will die. There will also be hemorrhaging.
6,000 to 10,000 mSv - Same symptoms as above. Central nervous system becomes severely damaged. The person is not expected to survive.
10,000+ mSv - Incapacitation. Death. Those who do survive higher radiation doses have a considerably higher risk of developing some cancers, such as lung cancer, thyroid cancer, breast cancer, leukemia, and cancer of several organs.”
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/219615.php
” - The radiation exposure of 1 TEPCO employee, who was working inside the reactor building, exceeded 100mSv and he was transported to the hospital.”
In morning hours after Chernobyl 134 workers received an exposure of 0.8-16 Gy which is 800-16000 m/sv ( 1Gy = 1Sv, 1Sv = 1000 m/Sv)
What this means is 134 workers in the first few hours at Chernobyl recieved 800m/Sv-16000m/sv. That stands in very stark contrast to the one Fukushima worker who recieved 100 m/sv.
For more perspective on radiation exposure; Symptom Benchmarks and Dose Examples
A 1% increase in the likelihood that they'll get cancer someday is tragic? Okay, but then what word do you use for the tens of thousands killed directly by the earthquake and tsunami?
Heroes indeed.
Notice they didn't specify HOW MUCH OVER 100 millisieverts.
May God bless and protect these brave souls.
27 microSieverts?
That’s 10 times the amount of radiation you get from your spouse if you shared a bed for 8 hours a day over 50 years! Marriage—or even co-habitating—is a dangerous business. Whew... Charlie Sheen is taking smart precautions by swapping out the ladies instead of having them both at once...HE MIGHT GET A HEADLINE IN ALL CAPS!
Just think...this is the dose that an airline pilot gets on the job in a decade!!!! Good thing we make them retire after what, a year, just to be safe!
Except for one thing, a better headline would read:
SIX WORKERS RECEIVED ONLY 27 OR LESS MICROSIEVERTS EXPOSURE, EVEN AT STRICKEN PLANT! (the one thing being the all caps.)
Yes, it’s a significant acute exposure, and I believe low-grade chronic exposure isn’t as bad, but 100mSv whilst working in a damaged nuke plant and media going bananas (about 10,000 of them, perhaps)? Pfft.