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Originally Posted by TylerSVT
The guy was saying he wants to go buy milk and freeze it because the milk will be contaminated in NA soon.... A little over reaction me thinks.
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It depends how much radiation is released, and I don't think the amount released will be cause harm over here. If more than three or four of those reactors having issues go full on Chernobyl, it may actually be something to do a little more thinking about. Again, I don't think it will be that bad. Not over-reacting to consider the issue, especially if you have little ones who gulp the stuff by the truckload every week.
Cresson H. Kearny, the author of the NWSS book, also states about this now declassified incident:
- "This one Chinese explosion produced about 15 million curies of iodine- 131 - roughly the same amount as the total release of iodine- 131 into the atmosphere from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster." "Fallout from the approximately 300 kiloton Chinese test explosion shown in Fig. 1 (Map 'B' above) caused milk from cows that fed on pastures near Oak Ridge, Tennessee and elsewhere to be contaminated with radioiodine, although not with enough to be hazardous to health."
"However, this milk contamination (up to 900 picocuries of radioactive iodine per liter) and the measured dose rates from the gamma rays emitted from fallout particles deposited in different parts of the United States indicate that trans-Pacific fallout from even an overseas nuclear war in which "only" two or three hundred megatons would be exploded could result in tens of thousands of unprepared Americans suffering thyroid injury."