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Unfortunately, it's not all a radioisotope of iodine, radioisotope of cesium has also be detected and it's half life is considerably longer than merely 8 days.
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Worth a look - http://xkcd.com/radiation/

Nuclear accidents are serious matters, of course, particularly at the point of the accident itself, but nothing I've seen yet suggests that the issues at the plant will compare even remotely to the devastation already inflicted by the earthquake and tsunami, even factoring in long term effects.
skywriter wrote: Unfortunately, it's not all a radioisotope of iodine, radioisotope of cesium has also be detected and it's half life is considerably longer than merely 8 days.


Does Cs accumulate biologically the same way? I know I and Sr are hazardous because they are either identical (I) or very similar (Sr/Ca) to elements that are accumulated.

Looks like there was a failure of the cladding, but less of the Cs will have been emitted than would have been possible in a Chernobyl-type failure because Cs is solid and there wasn"t an explosion.

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No. Generally, it's excreted quickly.
SAQ wrote: Does Cs accumulate biologically the same way?
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unfortunately, during the couple of hours, or a couple of days, in the gastrointestinal system Cesium ain't just whistling Dixie.
josehill wrote: No. Generally, it's excreted quickly.
SAQ wrote: Does Cs accumulate biologically the same way?
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hiroko's ok, so is her daughter, managed to track 'em down :). hope the same for r10's or anyone else's friends
One year after...

What were the changes so far?
If man would have been created out of the rib of a woman - how different would the world be?