[Pyramid*]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ttle-lost.html

Contract Workers being paid £760 per day to work at plant.......and understandably, some are blatantly refusing.

No one is ever going to convince me that there aren't going to be ramifications in the future - it might take years for the full effect of the amount of radiation leakage to show, but I am convinced that all is 'not as well' as TEPCO are making out.

Let's see a generation down the line - birth defects, higher rates of cancer within adults etc....... I'm absolutely convinced this is worse than officials are letting on.

[Lee.]

Originally Posted by Pyramid*

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ttle-lost.html

Contract Workers being paid £760 per day to work at plant.......and understandably, some are blatantly refusing.

No one is ever going to convince me that there aren't going to be ramifications in the future - it might take years for the full effect of the amount of radiation leakage to show, but I am convinced that all is 'not as well' as TEPCO are making out.

Let's see a generation down the line - birth defects, higher rates of cancer within adults etc....... I'm absolutely convinced this is worse than officials are letting on.

I agree Pyramid..

There has been traces of radiation from this found in Glasgow too!

[Pyramid*]

Originally Posted by happyland

I agree Pyramid..

There has been traces of radiation from this found in Glasgow too!

Yeah, (in Oxfordshire as well).... I read that - the only question I have is : what distinquishes radiation from 'Japan' - from radiation from other nearby nuclear plants etc...... how do they know it's from Japan?? A nuclear scientist or expert I'm not, so I couldn't quite figure that one out?

[James]

Originally Posted by happyland

I agree Pyramid..

There has been traces of radiation from this found in Glasgow too!

It is very low levels that were found. Lower than naturally occurring background radiation.

Analysis
Richard Warry
BBC News

The level of radioactive iodine-131 found in air samples in Oxfordshire poses no risk to human health.

The measured level - 300 micro-becquerels per cubic metre - is much less than the natural background radiation dose to which a person in the UK is likely to be exposed in normal circumstances.

At that level, a child's exposure in one day would be less than one 10,000th of what they would receive from naturally-occurring background radiation in a day.

Radioactive iodine can collect in the thyroid gland, which controls the body's rate of growth and cell division.

At levels many, many times higher than those detected in the UK, radioactive iodine can trigger cancer - children are most at risk.

Cases of thyroid cancer among the young increased following the Chernobyl disaster in the 1980s - but only among people living close to the stricken nuclear plant.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...-west-12892383