Fear of radiation escalates contamination

Deaths rise fall the evacuated of lack of medical support in Japan to the victims. Milk in the Pacific Northwest was found with tiny amounts of iodine-131, offers the same radiation exposure than watching TV contaminated.

A "minuscule" amount of radiation of iodine-131 was from the Northwest in a sample of milk, U.S., found tested was the US authorities said Wednesday.

"These results are compared what people every day to experience a tiny amount." For example, a person cross country flight, television, were exposed to low radiation on a round trip and even of construction materials, "a senior scientist at the food and Drug Administration (FDA) Patricia Hansen,"said.

She are referring to results from a cow milk sample taken from 25 March Spokane, Washington; It was 0.8 pCi/L of iodine-131, "Which more than 5,000 times lower than the intervention level derived by the U.S. food and Drug Administration is set", said an FDA statement.

In the meantime many Fukushima refugees evacuated to large facilities, such as for example the Saitama Super arena-an indoor stadium North of Tokyo, where up to 2,000 people on a site-lived to look for help and medical treatment.

Public health professionals have flu outbreaks in the congested Notunterkünften--often little more than school gyms with warned no heating or running water.

Increased fears of radiation transfer are also the situation made up. Today, the news reports tell of hospitals, which turn away hundreds of patients when they view a certificate, that they are free of radiation exposure.

A hospital allegedly turned away an 8 girl despite an obvious rash, the attention required. The girl's family had given up their home in Minamisoma, which is 18 km that nuclear plant.

Such ban is seen as fear similar to experienced-based response such as the survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

Currently, which extends compulsory evacuation zone around the power plant within 12 miles (20 km), and the Government has recommended that let people within of 19 miles (30 km).

Greenpeace yesterday recommended expansion of the compulsory evacuation zone, citing uneven variations in contamination.

According to Greenpeace, which has carried out surveys of the radioactivity, pollution is not evenly distributed. They found that more risk to human health than others is some areas about 25 miles from the plant evacuation are within the current zone.

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