2500-3500microSv is equal to 2.5-3.5mSv, pretty much spot on the other person's figure.
Yes, those are figures away from the reactors but in their neighbourhood.
Such low radiation isn't harmful at all.
Afaik the peak radiation measured was 400mSv but that had to be inside the reactor and isn't anywhere near as high in the surroundings. It was also reported to lower significantly to some 200mSv or so.
You didn't get what I was saying, days ago, maybe 3 days before they started spraying water they were saying it was 6.4milliSv at peak, but mostly 2.2-3milliSv, the next day they were saying it was 300 or so MICROSv, then the next day again they had two sources, one saying 0.3milliSv, or roughly the same, the other people were saying it was 3000-3300 microSv, or 3.3MilliSv. One hand is saying one group of numbers, the other is saying a completely different thing.
Likewise, the 400milliSv reading wasn't in the reactor, it was between the buildings 3 and 4, it was 100milliSv or so between 2 and 3, so the source was almost certainly 3 or 4, most likely at that point 4 with its raging fire and boiling spent fuel pool.
But this is where it gets bad/dodgey, it was the very next day they stopped telling us what the reactor numbers were, yet, it was bad to the point they evacuated everyone outside the gate afaik, for the majority of the day, which suggests it was worse than the day before.
Also keep in mind they had a meeting between those days with the embassies to give them some details and in the two days after that French told their people to leave, US/Uk told everyone to get much further away and USA sent in lots of incredibly accurate radiation detecting equipment both in a drone and a chopper, and immediately started acting like it was a pretty serious situation.
Also, people do need to get something right that they are getting completely wrong. Its utterly wrong to suggest Tokyo can't get serious radiation and the logic that because somewhere in the middle isn't bad doesn't mean crap. Look at Chernobyl, no not the accident, the spread of radiation, the local area got done, then it was pretty safe, and weather/wind/clouds took some of the worst stuff hundreds, thousands of miles away, with barely anything inbetween. There is nothing, at all, to logically suggest radiation travels a certain distance then stops, unfortunately changing weather patterns, wind directions, way the radiation is getting into the air is changing situation by situation.
One day it will be steam, drifting out to see low, another day it will burn some pretty nasty stuff at a couple thousand times the radiation of the day before, in smoke and steam that goes straight up, it doesn't have to all land a certain distance and not get further.
Its not likely Tokyo is going to get swarmed with radiation but the logic some people are using, like if theres no radiation at 35km, there can't be any at 60km, or 150km, its catagorically false.
Especially as the fire from the spent fuel rods, which are almost certainly damaged would have had less Iodine 131 which is short lived, and more Strontium, , iodine 129, etc, etc in it.
If the situation was singular, the winds remained the same, the weather was the same then it would be pretty predictable.
The USA has shown increased levels(I assume in Hawaii but I haven't looked into it) and experts, real people are suggesting minor minor amounts will hit the UK in a couple weeks, this is what radiation can do, get into the atmosphere and follow the wind.
Its highly, like ridiculously unlikely to take any kind of even minor levels to the states of the UK, but if it can make it there, pretending it can't get to Tokyo is daft.
you spout some serious drivel at times but I do completely agree with this. I'm jaded when it comes to donating for anything these days due to the way people go on.
People are going on about the debt, countries work with debt, thats our twisted economy. The simple fact remains, lets say Japan is going to borrow 50billion this year, increase its debt but less than previous years, 1 billion really ain't going to make a whole heck of a lot of difference, the thing is with the worlds 3rd biggest economy it CAN borrow 1billion. Haiti, couldn't borrow £1billion, ever, under any circumstances.
Its tragic, but my money would be better going to someone that can't in any way get money in another way. I think Japanese people have been superb, they've basically done the human race proud over the past week, I can't imagine what most are going through and I'd never want to go through it, but that doesn't randomly mean they deserve money?
You could understand a Japanese person donating to Haiti, could you understand a Haitian person donating to Japans cause right now, yes I can, probably some have, thats lovely, all I was getting at is there are better places for donations, not better causes, or more deserving people.
Japan might be "in debt" but they are still one of the worlds richest countries, debt and wealth aren't close to the same thing.
