After testing 15 people living in the towns of Iitate and Kawamata, which are located about 25 miles from the Fukushima nuclear power plant, Nanao Kamada of the Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine of Hiroshima University has discovered that all of them were irradiated.
The urine samples from a 77-year-old man in the first round of tests indicated radioactivity as high as 3.2 millisieverts. However, no iodine was found from the urine of the same man in the second round of tests, ruling out the possibility of air contamination.
“The cause might be that they ate contaminated vegetables and mushrooms before the restrictions, not by inhalingcontaminated air,” Kamada said, referring to a large scale restriction on Fukushima produce following the incident at the plants on March 11.
OMG THEY’RE ALL GOING TO DIE. Calm down, scared uninformed voice. 3.2 milisieverts is half the radiation of a 15-30 seconds CT scan, so it’s almost as life threatening as drinking sour coffee.
