ABC2 Doco - Children of the Tsunami - JAPAN
A lot of deformed babies. ?????
You read too many comic books?
Chernobyl survivors were exposed to massive amounts of radiation for a solid week before being evacuated.
There are high numbers of thyroid cancer in the children that were exposed, deformities and survival rates were not dramatically above normal.
The first team of workers that entered the Chernobyl plant to contain the leak died within a month - and they were in the reactor core! No one else died from the immediate exposure (by immediate I mean exposed for 1 week).
Smoking tobacco is a well documented antidepressant and helps prevent suicide, insomnia and anti social behaviour.
It was the only way for me to bail unscathed!!!!!
I am with Mizu.
I was asking Banger to clarify his exact concerns - having just returned I was hoping i would be able to ease them somewhat. I didn’t want to go on a tyrant without know exactly what he was concerned about… Radiation in the food. Radiation in the air? Further earthquakes/ Tsunami threats?
no raditation is’nt my concern… more the quakes and resulting tsunami. being that where we went in sendai was totally flattened and destroyed, it’s hard not to think about it. also i was concerned about what the japanese government tells or doesnt tell it’s own people, so you can bet they wont be sharing any damaging info with tourists like us.
I love Travelling in japan so much, there is no way i wont go back, but it always on my mind you know…just like my desire to go to the states for boarding but i cant help but think how much i would be constantly thinking of every lunatic owning a gun. 
Cool Banger…
The radiation one is not a simple answer - yeah the Japanese government are very shady. I trust the WHO and our own DFAT. If they had said don’t go I may have reconsidered. But this trip had been over two years in the planing. And considering i got on a plane to Gallipoli ANZAC day celebrations the day ‘war’ broke out in Iraq… (and DFAT said reconsider your plans - there were serious terrioist threats on the event!) with my mother’s last words being “call me if your head gets blown off…”
Also I went to live in the states only months after Sept 11th. My family were the only people who supported me on that. Every other person I spoke to said I was crazy.
I honestly believe that i have more chance being in a car accident being a weekend warrior during the season here than anything happening to me whilst travelling (this year was a stark reminder having been caught up in both Bredbo road closures)
If I did get radiation poisoning from this past trip. I still would not regret it at all!
I would rather die whilst travelling than get cancer having lived a boring life never leaving Australia!
Oh yeah, don’t forget that Idiot Abroad on TEN Saturday, is in Japan!!!!! 
Gee thanks Mizu!
Japan was reportedly on tsunami alert today, after a 6.8 quake 200k off the nth east coast!!!!!
Just reading that now actually!
But there was a massive tsumnani alert when i was there in 2010. Oh how we laughed when the warnings came up on the subway! Not so funny now.
Am trying to find the pic…
Found it.
We saw the Tsumami alert later that night on the TV. There has been an earthquake in the pacific. I think Aust was on high alert too at the time.
Waves!!!!! That would’ve been funny at the time!!!!!