Fukishima Fifty

[izzywhizzyletsgetbusy]

Does anyone know whether our own heroic fuki whatever MPs and their families have been issued iodide tablets?

If so, how/when do we get them?

If not, will it take a Freedom of Information Request that may or may not be answered in the next 10/20/30+ years to find out whether lions are being led by donkeys again?

What is a 'heroic fuki whatever MP'?.... your post doesn't make sense at all. Are you in Japan?

Have you namechanged Gabby?

Couldn't remember exactly how many useless fuking MPs we're currently supporting, and 'heroic' in this context is lifted from popular press descriptions of the FF and used with irony rather than iodide as I very much doubt that 50 of our all expenses paid finest would be willing to stick their fingers in a radioactive dyke if their only reward is the good of all.

I'm merely wondering whether the usual suspects are up to their usual tricks and are covertly protecting themselves from the potential side/ill effects of any fall out (in this particular instance that wending it's way to the UK from the nuclear reactor meltdown in Japan) while leaving the general populace exposed to real or perceived threat.

Please indulge me - it's a whim and it might pass, but I'd like to know whether there's any way to find out if the leg-ends in their own lunchtime are already on megadoses of mother's little helpers when it comes to staving off the horrors of excess radiation.

Get a grip ffs.

Gibberish.

What I think Gabby is referring to is the 50 people who are working at the Fukushima Nuclear Plant, who are attempting to bring the reactors under control.
Japan actually have very hight safety standards so I would expect that they are all fully equipped, with proper decontamination proctedures and they will have been give iodine tablets as SOP.

They are still risking their lives though!

Erm. You are not making any sense.

We do not live in Japan, we are under no immediate threat so don't get your knickers ina twist!

Your posts make no sense at all BTW.

Oh I bet this is one of the lazy bastards researchers from the Wright Stuff...

I would think researchers from the Wright Stuff were literate? Izzy and others I know are scared about the perceived threat from Japan and that's probably what's prompted the post...There doesn't seem enough reassurance out there somehow.

"There doesn't seem enough reassurance out there somehow."

There's reassurance out there but most of the media is just happily running panic stories. For a more reasoned and informed opinion read this:
www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/22/fukushima_tuesday_2/

Probably the highlight is:
"According to the Japanese health-ministry calculations, one would need to consume food containing iodine-131 in the levels so far seen for 14 years before you had even the tiniest increased chance of cancer. You couldn't possibly do that, as iodine-131 has not been generated at Fukushima for eight days ? since the cores scrammed as the quake hit ? and it only has a half-life of eight days. It will have declined to negligible levels within weeks no matter where it is ? in a cow, on a spinach leaf, in your body, wherever. (One should also note that the spent fuel rods in the pools, not having undergone fission for months, don't have significant amounts of iodine in them.)"

Thanks Badgers. Also, if others not aware, see the discussion with Paddy Regan on the home page.

".....any fall out (in this particular instance that wending it's way to the UK from the nuclear reactor meltdown in Japan) "

In case you hadn't noticed, there has not been a 'meltdown', they're working hard to get it under control and the 'fall out' as you call it has hardly affected Tokyo, never mind us a few thousand miles away. But make yourself a tin-foil helmet if it makes you feel better, by all means

FWIW izzywhizzyletsgetbusy or whoever you are.... you sound like you need to indulge in fewer 'mothers little helpers' yourself. Sad.