In the local area of the reactor, it is many times over normal. In areas like Tokyo the background is about twice the norm.
Twice the normal background for Tokyo is almost half as much as the norm for London, or about the same as New York City.
There is really bad radiation!
If the radiation from Japan reached Taiwan, the radiation problem would have to be very bad. If it did reach you, you should stay inside and keep the windows shut. Even if the radiation got through all that, you would get cancer.
In 1999, there was a nuclear accident at the Tokaimura uranium processing facility in Japan, which exposed dozens of workers to high levels of radiation. This accident resulted from a criticality accident during the processing of nuclear fuel.
For many years, there was radiation in the air in Japan from the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. However, Japan is perfectly safe to visit today, with no risk of radiation poisoning.
It was an atomic bomb. The city was devastated. The damage came from the heat and the radiation.
The bombing of Japan at the end of WWII killed MANY PEOPLE because of the nuclear radiation
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No, Hawaii is currently not in danger of radiation from the incidents involving the nuclear reactors in Japan.
No, the seafood in Costa Rica has not been contaminated by radiation from Japan's disaster. Costa Rica is very far from Japan.
Small amounts of radiation from damaged nuclear plants in Japan have already reached California but they pose no health threats at all. Any radiation that reaches California from Japan is well dissipated by the time it gets there.
look at Japan.
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