Comment Re:watch this video (Score 1) 673
Unless the radiation is from I-131 which has a half-life of 8 days. In that case it won't be there at all in a couple of months. Since the IAEA folks that are monitoring in Japan are only seeing I-131 in dangerous amounts, 1.6 uSv/hr is the official highest measured value with levels of Strontium being very low, your calculation for a year is a bit off. Also the 1.6 uSv/hr that has been measured, by people trained to do these measurements with callibrated and well understood equipment as opposed to reporters, is more like 14-15 mSv for a total annual dosage. That's two to three times background depending on where you live. It's on the low end of the scale of radiation a smoker gets from a pack a day habit. As long as the folks in the one village where the 1.6 uSv/hr was measured take their iodine tablets and keep the water and milk away from the babies for the next month, the effect on their life expectancy will be immeasurably small.