From Reuters again :
Radiation poses only slight risk to nervous Tokyo: U.S. experts
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/15/us-japan-quake-health-idUSTRE72E9DL20110315
EXCERPT
Dozens of workers battling to control radiation at Japan’s stricken reactors face a far greater risk of developing cancer than normal, but Tokyo residents are within the safe range for exposure, U.S. nuclear experts said.
Radiation levels in Tokyo, one of the world’s most populous cities, rose 10 times above average Tuesday evening, spreading fear among many of the 33 million residents in the metropolitan area.
The best advice experts could give them was to stay indoors, close the windows and avoid breathing bad air — steps very similar to those for handling a smog alert or avoiding influenza.
While these steps may sound inconsequential, experts said the danger in Tokyo, while worrisome, is slight - at least for now.
“Everything I’ve seen so far suggests there have been nominal amounts of material released. Therefore, the risks are generally low to the population,” Jerrold Bushberg, who directs programs in health physics at the University of California at Davis, said in a telephone interview.
“There may be more significant risks for emergency workers on site. They are dealing with the occupational exposure, but not for the population at large.”
Fresh explosions Tuesday at the Fukushima plant, 180 miles north of Tokyo, released low levels of radiation, escalating a crisis triggered by last week’s massive earthquake and tsunami. With cooling systems knocked out, the fear is more blasts within the reactors at the complex could eventually cause a major radiation leak.
The levels measured around Tokyo at one point were 40 times above normal but have receded to 10 times. That amounts to roughly the same dose as a chest or abdominal CT scan.
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Like I said before there are a lot of mixed messages right now.
Government is notorious for lying. Most on Free Republic already know this. I don’t understand why some members are believing the government line. To me it seems the story keeps changing every day.
I know this much.... Through out the years (since Clinton was in office) the Drudge Report tends to be right most of the time and the government does not. Some how everyone on here wants to believe the government over the Drudge Report. Even though from years they would believe the Drudge Report for TRUTH over the feds. Just saying...
BTW,
Look at the top of Drudge headlines. I’m sorry, but the news is not adding up. My point being I would bet Drudge is right and the government is wrong. They keep changing their story Drudge has not.