While reading about this disaster today and seeing how the Japanese maintain social order and discipline while queuing up for hours to buy food brought tears to my eyes. There was no looting and neighbours helped and co-operated with each other. Salute them. I want neighbours like them.
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ABC news
Before and after.
I was not born yet when the USA dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and has no knowledge what the effects of radiation is all about. So this time it is necessary to know and read what it is about radiation.
Looking for an answer to my question: If you are in a aeroplane sitting next to a radiation-contaminated fellow passenger, can you be exposed to the radiation? I found this article.
Radiation Emergencies and Preparedness
What Radiation Exposure Is
Radioactive materials give off a form of energy that travels in waves or particles. This energy is called radiation. When a person is exposed to radiation, the energy penetrates the body. For example, when a person has an x-ray, he or she is exposed to radiation.
How Contamination Differs From Exposure
A person exposed to radiation is not necessarily contaminated with radioactive material. A person who has been exposed to radiation has had radioactive waves or particles penetrate the body, like having an x-ray. For a person to be contaminated, radioactive material must be on or inside of his or her body. A contaminated person is exposed to radiation released by the radioactive material on or inside the body. An uncontaminated person can be exposed by being too close to radioactive material or a contaminated person, place, or thing.
Continue reading above article from the USA Center for Disease Control: click
11 March 2011 - Earthquake/tsunami strucked Japan : Daily Chilli
Thank God for our lives.
