Small amounts of radioactive iodine found in breast milk

[IScreamSundays]

Source: Kyodo

A citizen's group concerned about the impact on mothers and babies of the radioactive leaks from a crippled nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture said Wednesday that small amounts of radioactive iodine have been found in the breast milk of four women living east or northeast of Tokyo.

Of the samples provided by the four women, the breast milk of the mother of an 8-month-old baby in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, contained the highest level of 36.3 becquerels of radioactive iodine per kilogram, but no radioactive cesium was found, the group said.

The Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan has not set safety levels for radioactive substances in breast milk, according to the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry. But the reading was below the safety limit of 100 becquerels per kg for tap water consumption by infants under 1 year old.

Read more: http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/86719.html

[buddysmellgood]

1. Now this ought to get people's attention. If breasts become radioactive, everybody loses.

[truthisfreedom]

2. Keep in mind that the half-life of radioactive iodine is about 8 days, so within 2 months

all of that radioactivity basically disappears. The problem is, if more fresh radioactive iodine keeps being produced by the reactor in fission events inside (the fuel basically "melting down") and it keeps moving into the atmosphere and drinking water and landing on crops, humans will continue to ingest it and it will end up in breast milk and inside thyroid glands where it will cause cancer.

The solution? Get out of northern Japan.

[truthisfreedom]

3. Hold the phone...

Tokyo isn't exactly in northern Japan.

Strike that, and change it to this:

Get out of Japan.

[ClarkUSA]

4. +1

[Auntie Bush]

5. Where are all those people going to go?