ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center
SOURCE: FedHealth
13March2011 1:22pmEST
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: ARIZONA - FedHealth owner, and co-author of "IT'S A DISASTER!", Janet Liebsch, released a preventative letter today explaiing, "I'm not trying to be an alarmist but .. sending this as fyi in case things go south with Japanese reactors. Hopefully they can contain everything since structures are much more modern than Chernobyl. But sharing this with our 
And remember .. TIME, DISTANCE and SHIELDING are important during any type of radiological disaster. And radioactive materials decay rapidly .. per 7/10 rule, for every sevenfold increase in time, there is a tenfold decrease in radiation rate. For example, 75 Rems (rad) would drop to 7.5 Rems after 7 hours. Best thing you can do IF this even happens is .. stay inside a structure (don’t be running around outdoors) and stay put for hours or a day or 2 until it decays. Again .. that’s ONLY if things go bad.
If you don’t have our book handy, download our nuclear power plant accident tips in PDF here .. and learn how to build an expedient shelter here. (Also attached both here in PDF.) If you don’t have access to KI, get a bottle of iodine from a local pharmacy so it’s on shelf .. then only IF a plume is coming .. wipe a swipe on your abdomen. It’ll stain your skin but it can fill up your thyroid with good iodine so it doesn’t absorb bad stuff. Children (including unborn) are most susceptible since their thyroids are still active. Unfortunately we don’t have suggestions for cesium yet (other than Prussian blue but don’t know how to get any) .. but working on finding options / alternatives.
Also please realize we’re talking potential semi-low Rad levels for western US and Canada per map (although Aleutian Islands may experience higher Rads)."
Per japan.org …
0-50 rads (Rems)– No obvious short-term effects
80-120 rads– You have a 10% chance of vomiting and experiencing nausia for a few days
130 -170 rads– You have a 25% chance of vomiting and contracting other symptoms
180-220 rads– You have a 50% chance of vomiting and having other severe physical effects
270-330 rads– 20% chance of death in 6 weeks, or you will recover in a few months.
400-500 rads - 50% chance of death
550-750 rads - Nausia within a few hours ; no survivors
> 1000 rads - immediate incapacitation and death within a week or less.
(Source: Japan.org)
She asks people not to panic or be overly-obsessed with keeping track of the news, but to "stay current on events and try to educate yourself and others as best as possible."
Japan’s earthquake page is http://www.japan.org and US Nuclear Regulatory Commission is http://www.nrc.gov , not to mention the local and national media who will be monitoring this event as it progresses.
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reactor after an explosion blew the roof off in the wake of the massive earthquake, but the government insisted that radiation levels were low.
Government spokesman Yukio Edano said the explosion destroyed the exterior walls of the building where the reactor is placed, but not the actual metal housing enveloping the reactor.
