(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Here's the real truth everyone. You can finally stop worrying about the effects the radiation plume from Japan will have on California.

As I said before in a different thread, I have a direct line of knowledge about how bad the radiation will be (which it won't be) on California. My dad works for a company that is in a California branch of the United States Homeland Security. The branch is responsible for detecting all the radiation, dirty bomb and other chemical extremes that can harm the public if publicly released. He develops the software for all the programs used for the detection devices. Furthermore, in order to make sure his shit works, he has to actually test it, with real radiation. He has more radiation in his office than the entire plume from Japan, stored safely of course. Everyday I get emails from him letting me know how ridiculous all these claims that people are making about the negative effects the radiation will have on the population of the west coast. But enough about that, here's an article that should calm everyone down.

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MATHER, Calif., March 18 (UPI) -- People in California should not fear radiation from Japan reaching the state Friday, officials said as a U.S. agency added radiation monitors to the region.

"We do not anticipate any amounts of radiation that will cause any health effects," said California Department of Public Health interim Director Howard Backer.

A United Nations forecast of the movement of the radioactive plume coming from Japan's crippled Fukushima reactors indicated it would hit Southern California, more than 5,000 miles away, late Friday.

Health and nuclear experts said the plume's radiation would be diluted and, at worst, have extremely minor health consequences in the United States, The New York Times reported.

California's Emergency Management Agency (the branch of HLS my dad works for) confirmed Thursday California could detect heightened radiation as early as Friday. But it said health effects would be all but unnoticeable.

Oregon and Washington also monitored for any increase in radiation levels from the Japanese plant, crippled in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said neither the West Coast nor Hawaii was expected to experience harmful levels of radioactivity.

President Barack Obama went further, saying: "Whether it's the West Coast, Hawaii, Alaska or U.S. territories in the Pacific, we do not expect harmful levels of radiation. That's the judgment of our Nuclear Regulatory Commission and many other experts."

Some California drugstores reported running out of potassium iodide, which prevents some of radioactive iodine's harm to the thyroid, CNN reported. State health officials said they didn't know how many people were taking potassium iodide s a precaution, but they strongly discouraged anyone from doing so. They said the medicine has side-effects, especially for people allergic to iodine, shellfish or who have thyroid problems.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency added radiation monitors on the West Coast, Alaska, Hawaii, Guam and on other Pacific islands. The move was precautionary, the agency said.

Anyone with radiation-exposure questions can call a California Department of Public Health hot line at (916) 341-3947.



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NOW. That's the END of this whole topic.

Too many threads on the whole Japan crisis. I think there should be one main thread and everyone puts their views/news on it. So many of them are just repetition.

This is why I posted this one. So it would stop all the confusion and keep people from posting anything else about it.

Also, do you notice it doesn't say "+rep me if you're not scared anymore"?

People only post for the +rep. I think half of them don't even care about what's happening! Imma +rep just cause you didnt ask!

Ok yeah... Now I can put my "RadAway" away =D

Well one challenge down. Now time for the other problems... crazy high sale tax, CARB, and "known to the State of California to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity" you can get cancer from just about anything here, but not any other state

i think i am kinda beast because i am immune =D

i was getting worried for a second too, thanks Knucks! =D

meh it never crossed my mind of being worried ppl are just too stupid and fall for every single sign of alarm