LATEST:Tokyo hit by 8.9 mag earthquake and 10-m high tsunami
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SAHM_TAN:
Some paraniod questions, if tap water is not safe for babies, then how about the breastmilk from mothers? Breastfeeding mothers drink the tap water, won't some of the radiation pass to the breastmilk, rending it unsafe too? Does that mean must drink imported distilled water? But will items imported into the area be affected by the radiation too?
Radioactive iodine will pass from mother's milk to infant. -
Daddy
Mankind's Inventions are causing more distruction, rather than Mother Nature.
Well we can't always live in caves.
Oppenheimer remarked dat they hv created a monster when his team built d first atomic bomb. -
SAHM_TAN:
Also dunno if they have access to imported distilled water now........poor babies...
Tokyo - today's photo.
http://postimage.org/image/9rmvrcpw/
A shipment of water for distribution in Emergency program to children.
http://photo.kyodonews.com/photo_thumbnail/324110324135230_Safe_water_for_child.jpg
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Way2GO:
The damage done will not be limited to one generation or within a specific location, so my vote is still against
d gahmen is likely looking at all viable options so as to reduce dependency on fossil fuels.
Solar energy is still expensive to implement.
Wind energy requires a lot of space to generate enuf electricity but
SG doesn't has d luxury of space.
Wave energy development is still in its infancy.
Nuclear energy has been ard for > 60 years.
In those 60 years, there hv been only 3 major nuclear crisis:
Chernobyl n 3 Mile Island were accidents due to human error;
Fukushima was by force of nature.
So to look in perspective, 3 major incidents in 60 years is a pretty good safety record.
Newer nuclear plants r built safer than d one at Fukushima Daiichi power plant,
which was an early Mark I design by GE.
Nonetheless, in deciding to build one, safety n proximity to human population must be prime n foremost considerations.
In a small island city state with limited landmass n expected 6.5 mil ppl,
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Way2GO:
At least mothers can drink prepackaged drinks or other drinks that don't require being made up with water. Well, hopefully they are getting some of that. But babies cannot drink those, so it's just mothers' milk or formula milk for them. Hopefully the babies who are not breastfeeding are getting some supplies of prepackaged formula that are ready-to-drink and not require water as well.SAHM_TAN:
Some paraniod questions, if tap water is not safe for babies, then how about the breastmilk from mothers? Breastfeeding mothers drink the tap water, won't some of the radiation pass to the breastmilk, rending it unsafe too? Does that mean must drink imported distilled water? But will items imported into the area be affected by the radiation too?
Radioactive iodine will pass from mother's milk to infant. -
By MINORU MATSUTANI
Staff writer
Radioactive iodine exceeding the government's regulated level for infants was detected Wednesday in water in a purification plant in Katsushika Ward, Tokyo, prompting the metropolitan government to advise residents not to let babies younger than 1 year old drink tap water or powdered milk made with tap water, in the 23 wards and five cities.
The iodine-131 was detected in water taken Tuesday from the Kanamachi Purification Plant. The level was 210 becquerels per liter of water, more than double the recommended level of 100 becquerels for infants stipulated in the Food Sanitation Act, according to Ei Yoshida, manager of Tokyo's Waterworks Bureau.
\"The level is not dangerous unless you keep drinking the water for a long period of time,\" Yoshida told a news conference. \"If there is nothing else to drink, you can let babies drink the water every once in a while.\"
Water from the plant goes to all of 23 wards as well as the suburbs of Musashino, Mitaka, Machida, Tama and Inagi in western Tokyo.
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry backed Yoshida's remark.
\"The regulated level, 100 becquerels per liter, is a level at which people can have babies drink for a long time without worrying about radiation,\" said Kazuya Kumagai of the ministry's Water Supply Division.
He advised parents to use bottled water to make powdered milk, but added that they shouldn't panic even if babies have drunk tap water.
Later in the day, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano offered assurances that adults can drink tap water and use it in everyday life.
If stores run out of bottled water, boiling faucet water will help reduce toxicity to some extent, radiation experts said.
Immediately after the announcement by the metropolitan government, a team of radiotherapists, physicists and nuclear engineers at the University of Tokyo released their take on the contamination of tap water on the group's Twitter account.
\"Iodine-131, when contained in water, can be removed to some extent by boiling it,\" the team said.
Iodine-131's half-life ā the period by which the radiation level is halved ā is eight days.
For all people over the age of 1, 300 becquerels per liter of water is the standard regulated level, but pregnant and breast-feeding women may want to tighten the standard to 100 becquerels per liter, Kumagai said.
The metropolitan government collected water from its Kanamachi, Asaka and Ozaku purification plants Tuesday to check the density of radioactive substances.
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In essence, radioactive iodine cannot be removed by boiling.
If it can be, then d iodine 131 released into the atmosphere in Fukushima reactors shd hv simply boiled off when d water was converted to steam.
Wat I think d team means is dat when water is boiled, some iodine 131 in d water is carried out of d water with d evaporated steam.
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Way2GO:
I think they're just trying to downplay the whole thing... so as not to cause widespread panic... but don't think everyone believes what the \"experts\" or government is telling them...
In essence, radioactive iodine cannot be removed by boiling.
If it can be, then d iodine 131 released into the atmosphere in Fukushima reactors shd hv simply boiled off when d water was converted to steam.
Wat I think d team means is dat when water is boiled, some iodine 131 in d water is carried out of d water with d evaporated steam.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
Basically it's eat and drink at your own risk... if there's side effects (if any), nobody will know anyway... not at least for another 30 odd years or so...
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http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_649114.html
\"FOUR shipments of Japanese vegetables which arrived in Singapore will be destroyed after traces of radioactive contaminants were found in samples from them...
All the vegetables, totalling 144kg, were recalled successfully, except for 200g which had gone to a restaurant. \"
You call this recalled successfully?
I call this... trying too hard to downplay the situation...
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Hmm, is AVA set up to protect consumers or to protect eateries?
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Way2GO:
Erm, actually there are more than 15...Except that Chernobyl one is the most jia lak one..
there hv been only 3 major nuclear crisis:
Chernobyl
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