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They all send off radiation. deb feyerick is live in new york to actually -- you have a look at what is normal and what isnt. so calm our fears. >> well, you know, listen, carol. its everywhere, all around us. exposed to very low doses, every single day. its in the air in rocks, oil, cigarettes, secondhand smoke, fertilizers, the tv sets all around us and x-rays. now, even when you fly, youre actually exposed to certain levels of radiation. a flight from new york to los angeles is about half the...

Quickly fell back to levels that pose no risks. even so, everyone within 20 kilometers has been evacuated. >> and ongoing series of strong aftershocks is rattling peoples already frayed nerves. there are reports this hour of another jolt in tokyo. on tuesday, one of those aftershocks outside the japanese capital reached a magnitude of 6.2. meanwhile, on the financial markets, the mood has lightened a little. japanese prices higher on wednesday, a day after the any kai suffered one of its biggest...

Day and in small doses. in the air, rock, soil, cigarettes, secondhand smoke, fertilizers, tv sets, and yes, of course, x-rays. even when you fly, youre exposed to some small amount of radiation. a flight, for example, from new york to los angeles is about half the amount in the chest x-ray, which is still pretty small. the body has learned to observe process and neutralize background radiation. the amount of radiation you and i absorb every year registers at an average level of about 6.2, thats...

Save on advil with our special coupon in select newspapers on march 27th. heres the latest on the disaster in the pacific. japans government told the remaining 50 workers at fukushima nuclear plant to stop emergency operations. the radiation may be too high to safely continue work containment. and another major aftershock hit japan today. it was a magnitude 6.0 jolt. two aftershocks yesterday were so strong that buildings swayed in tokyo. the strongest one was a magnitude 6.2. asian stock ...

The bottom over time has absorb and process and neutralize background radiation. the amount of radiation you and he absorb every year registered an average level of about 6.2 millisieverts is how its measure. half of that comes from x-ray like you get at the depthists. nuclear plant workers allowed a minimum of 50 milliseverities. 400 an amount the body would absorb safely two and a half hours. after that, it could be deadly. >> its not like resting on the sidelines of a football game. once youv...

Trying to grab a couple hours of sleep and everything really started rocking, and i woke up to probably about a good minute of -- in our room here of water bottles falling over, the building creaking. you know what, whats different here versus what might happen in the u.s. on a normal day, a 6.0 would be a major quake in the u.s. here it seems the japanese people look at it and say, well, thats just another aftershock. and everybody goes back to work and they do what theyre doing. in our hotel l...

Designed for 7.5 where the maximum might have been 6.2. >> governor, when you were energy secretary, surely those kinds of numbers were somewhat negotiated, that there was dispute as to exactly what is the level that is likely in a given area and what is the high level, what is the low level. i mean, this is science that gets politicized when brought into department of energy and elsewhere in the government, and huge spending decisions are going to be based on exactly which scientific number we ...

Save on advil with our special coupon in select newspapers on march 27th. heres the latest on the disaster in the pacific. japans government told the remaining 50 workers at fukushima nuclear plant to stop emergency operations. the radiation may be too high to safely continue work containment. and another major aftershock hit japan today. it was a magnitude 6.0 jolt. two aftershocks yesterday were so strong that buildings swayed in tokyo. the strongest one was a magnitude 6.2. asian stock ...

I think this is a time not necessarily to talk about stopping nuclear power or moratoriums, but it is a time for i guess a timeout, a pause. lets look at all of the safety procedures in the 104 nuclear reactors we have in the 31 states, and lets be sure that the lessons learned from this catastrophe are applied here in america. >> lets listen to something else that secretary chu said today about these plants in earthquake areas. >> what you do when you design for them, you ask the geo physicists...

Nearly 3:30 a.m. wednesday in japan where the ground is still rumbling away beneath quake survivors feet. moderate to strong aftershocks making for a nervous night. plus, we had an entirely separate earthquake strike japans main island, couple hundred miles south of sendai. according to the usgs, it had a magnitude of 6.2 and it hit the home to mt. fuji, a volcano. no tsunami threat and a nearby nuclear plant given the all-clear. the nuclear crisis in fuch sheem moo has the world on edge. toda...