(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.

About damn time. :y:

Hopefully the rush of Japan threads will slow down now.

Let's get off this fallout crap and get back to some really ridiculas fears like 2012.
At least you could openly laugh at those fools!!

Too late. Hundreds of millions already bought iodine.

Damn right, I live in NY and I bought iodine

I'm in Michigan. No need for iodine.

So that means Washington is safe too :y:
And to think I've been playing Fallout 3 for 3 days straight to prepare

I guess I'm safe here in Finland then :carling:

But i was looking forward to having a robotic dog and fighting some dude named caesar

I like how this got No Thank you'd for an "un-useful" post. This is probably the most useful information that has been posted about the issue on ngu.

I feel sorry for all the people who wasted tons of money buying iodine pills. Even if there were raised levels of radiation, all you would need to do is stay inside, close windows and cover openings with wet towels.