I can't remember the exact number, but I read somewhere where someone had calculated the amount of tons of dirt you had to eat to ingest a lethal amount of plutonium from the amount that had been measured in fukushima region.
Where ever this train stops, is where I am getting off. No amount of worrying/posting "awareness"/e-activism is going to change what will happen. Worry and panic doesn't help anything.
If you want to see a visual record of the amount earthquakes we've had since the 11th (more than 700) check out this site - make sure you wait for the M9 to hit then it gets interesting - http://www.japanquakemap.com/
Stay safe guys. Scary times... Rolling blackouts and rolling earthquakes I can't image what it's like to be in a situation like that. Do the smaller earthquakes trigger more tsunami like conditions? I saw in a lot of the footage there are pretty substantial sea walls along most of the coast, can they handle the smaller…
Roughly...what, 10-12 milligrams of plutonium can be lethal to a person? We don't know exactly how much plutonium was in the surrounding soil. From what I've read, it wasn't a very dangerous amount, and it's very localized. Also, radiation from plutonium doesn't just blast through your flesh because you're within 20 miles…