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Unless you drink contaminated milk this is probably the only thing that would really help:
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Interesting. the drug "E-rad" has completed phase I drug trials in mice.


In vivo studies show that Ex-RAD
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, upon oral administration, produced a significant increase in survival versus placebo-treated groups in mice exposed to lethal whole body irradiation (WBI), for both prophylactic pre-treatment and mitigation post-treatment.
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Ex-RAD® is the only known oral radioprotectant that has shown such activity in animal model systems.
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spource: http://www.onconova.com/pdfs/pressreleases/20100927_ExRAD_RRS_PressRelease_final.pdf

No phase II or phase III testing on it yet. I wonder if they'll send some over for testing .

http://www.onconova.com/exrad.shtml

Not sure- but hey, anything is worth a try in a case like that.
 
jpcavin said:
I hope it doesn't get any worse. My son is going to school in California.:worried:
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that's ok. It's pretty minute radiation readings in California right now.

The radiation will be in Florda by early next week anyway. :D


During Chernobyl, I was stationed in the Army in Germany. We had very high levels of radition falling there for weeks and weeks, far above anything that Japan has produced so far. The Army began monitoring the fallout, but they still had us going outside each morning and rolling in the wet grass for P-T every day. Local German police were conficating vegitables in the farmers markets, and the farmers had to dump milk in the streets because it was unsafe to sell, yet we in the U.S. Army carried on as though nothing was changed.

It's not what's coming out of Japan reactors right now that concerns me today. It's what is ahead that is most worrying to me. If the nuclear piles catch fire and burn extensively, then it's going to be really, really bad in the future.
 
Birchtree said:
That out of state tuition has got to hurt.
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Nope. California was my home of record. I sent him out there within a year after I retired from the navy so he was given a waiver for the first year and by the time the second school year rolled around, he was already a California resident. (I have a house in Calif so that helped as well).;)
 
Update- radiation at the japan site is now very-very high. 400 Millisieverts per hours is a tremendous amount of radiation coming off there-
Radiation at ground level near units 3 and 4 was high: peaking at 400 millisieverts per hour on the inland side of unit 3, and 100 millisieverts per hour on the inland side of unit 4. At the highest exposure rate, a nuclear worker or soldier could remain in the area for less than 40 minutes before leaving the site, unable to return.

With such serious damage to the reactor buildings it is thought that radiation from further degradation of stored fuel at units 3 and 4 would be released to the environment unchecked.
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They are attempting to refill ponds.

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_Attempts_to_refill_fuel_ponds_1703111.html

Stupid question- at how many of our American-built Nuclear power plants, do we store the spent fuel rods just feet away from the active cores? Why do we do that? Why don't we store the spent fuel rods FAR-FAR away from the active piles, so that if there IS a problem with an active core, we don't also have to worry about the spent rods becoming uncoved, and thereby irradinating anyone trying to put out a burning active nuclear core?

And why don't we have all the pools with spent fuel buried now in Yucca Mountain?


MOVE IT AND OPEN YUCCA NOW!
 
James48843 said:
Stupid question- at how many of our American-built Nuclear power plants, do we store the spent fuel rods just feet away from the active cores? Why do we do that? Why don't we store the spent fuel rods FAR-FAR away from the active piles, so that if there IS a problem with an active core, we don't also have to worry about the spent rods becoming uncoved, and thereby irradinating anyone trying to put out a burning active nuclear core?

And why don't we have all the pools with spent fuel buried now in Yucca Mountain?


MOVE IT AND OPEN YUCCA NOW!
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Spent Fuel- Not feet, but on the same site for all plants. They are are required to have storage for decades worth of spent fuel onsite. There isn't a national repository for spent fuel, only low-level rad waste sites.

Yucca- Don't ask me, ask the "Greenies" that prevented it... :confused:
 
General Motors lays off 59 workers at the engine plant in Tonawanda, New York. The engine plant makes engines for, among other things- the GMC Colorado pickup truck. That production line, in Shreveport, LA, was shut down after a parts shortage from the Japan earthquake/tsunami cut production.

Source say that's just the beginning, however. ""When this will really hit North America is three or four weeks from now, when those ships have come to port and all the parts are on the vehicles but no more ships are on the way," Gillette said.

More:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Gener...2.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=4&asset=&ccode=

At the moment, ALL Japanese car makers are shut down, as are some production lines in South Korea. It's only a matter of time before it strikes at the U.S. Auto industry, who source parts from all over the world, including the areas of Japan that were destroyed.

Massive shutdowns ahead in the entire auto industry.

"Monday, GM slowed production of the Opel Corsa subcompact car in Europe because of a shortage of parts, cancelling two of the three shifts at its Eisenach, Germany, plant and closing another plant in Zaragoza, Spain. The Corsa is one of the smallest cars in Opel's lineup.GM said last week it was cutting unnecessary spending companywide as it assesses the impact of production disruptions from the earthquake and tsunami."
 
James48843 said:
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Source say that's just the beginning, however. ""When this will really hit North America is three or four weeks from now, when those ships have come to port and all the parts are on the vehicles but no more ships are on the way," Gillette said.
At the moment, ALL Japanese car makers are shut down, as are some production lines in South Korea. It's only a matter of time before it strikes at the U.S. Auto industry, who source parts from all over the world, including the areas of Japan that were destroyed.
Massive shutdowns ahead in the entire auto industry.
... cutting unnecessary spending company wide as it assesses the impact of production disruptions from the earthquake and tsunami."
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Seems like this is an opportune time to get back into the business of producing our own parts. Surely there are manufacturers who can do some conversions in their plants to accomplish this? (ex: WWII.) As for Americans no longer having that skill, there are now `more than a few' unemployed auto & parts production folks in Japan who may be tickled to come to the USA, have a paycheck to send back home (think Mexicans) & help with a re-start....
 
Reestablish Delco, Delphi, Saginaw in the USA, take them back.
 
Toyota tells U.S. plants 'prepare to shut down'

Peter Valdes-Dapena, senior writer,
On Wednesday March 23, 2011, 9:05 pm EDT

Toyota's U.S. manufacturing arm is preparing for a possible shutdown because of parts shortages from Japan, a Toyota spokesman said. Word has gone out to all 13 of Toyota's factories in the United States, Canada and Mexico. This does not mean that the plants will stop working, Toyota spokesman Mike Goss said, but that they should be ready in case the need arises.

"We expect some kind of interruptions," he said.

While Toyota's car factories in Japan have stopped working since the March 11 earthquake in Japan, the automaker was able to resume production of some auto parts on March 17.

Toyota employs 25,000 manufacturing and R&D workers in North America.
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Looks like Toyota is going to have to completely shut down all production.

Bad news for the entire auto industry.

More: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Toyot...html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=main&asset=&ccode=
 
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