RADIATION RAIN? THE EFFECT OF RADIATION LEAK IN JAPAN NUCLEAR PLANT

Just this morning, I opened my twitter, cellphone and my facebook account and all I see are words like “RADIATION RAIN”. The photo shown above is courtesy of Reuters, wherein officials are checking for signs and symptoms of radiation in children.

Now this is true in Japan. But in the Philippines, there is no threat regarding radiation rain here in the Philippines contrary to the text messages, facebook walls and tweets. Although there are fumes coming out from Japan’s nuclear plant, there is no way it is coming here in the Philippines. It is believed that the fumes are going to the eastern part.

After the 8.9 earthquake in Japan, an explosion occurred at the Fukishima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Northern Japan, which caused a lot of horror to most residents in Japan and all over the world. As a result of the explosion, it caused steam and caused the breakdown of the nuclear plant’s reactors. The effect of this could be a meltdown that is considered as the most dangerous kind of nuclear power accident because of radiation leak.

PHOTOGRAPHS BELOW ARE COURTESY OF THE NEW YORK TIMES

Source: International Nuclear Safety Center

As of this time I am writing this, Japan authorities reported that the radiation level are far above normal but still too small to pose a hazard to human health. Health hazards would only happen if the leaks would continue and exposure to these hazards will not stop.

Three workers of the nuclear plant’s facility is already afflicted with “full-on radiation sickness” as reported. According to Reuters around 140,000 people have been evacuated from the areas near the nuclear plant near the Fukushima Daini nuclear plant in Koriyama, Japan and are also being checked for signs and symptoms of radiation sickness. The Japanese government is now getting ready to distribute iodine as prophylaxis to radiation exposure.

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