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You about how to go safely about cleaning that up. see you in a short while. japan's health minute riftistrif ministry has found radiation on food imported from japan. a doctor is a leading authority in preventive medicine and medical nutrition. good day to you. when you hear about radiation contamination, does that set you into a state of panic or are you of the belief like some that small amounts is almost like what we get in a daily sense of exposure. >> it is important to take perspective here. around the power plant itself there are significant problems and people exposed there are goin...

Trying to brainstorm and come up with different ways to attack the problem. >> it also raised the question of whether japanese officials have really asked for help as quickly as they should have. a lot of people in the united states are looking at, you know, have been trying to get iodine pills. that's something that is not necessary, that there's no danger of this radiation hitting the united states. >> i think we can say that convincingly. as things stand right now, we hear that the amount of radiation that's been released at its peak was a couple of millisieverts per hour. the background ra...

A concentration of microwaves or wi-fi antennas. is that true? how do you distinguish between that and something really dangerous? >>guest: the radiation we are talking about here is of the time that is called radioactivity opposed to microwave radiation. >>neil: i see. >>guest: so, what you are looking for is any excess radiation level's and beyond background radiation that is bombards us as we speak. >>neil: the epa buying any of your stuff? >>guest: no i think they probably already pretty well equipped but it has been an array of buyers. >>neil: government buyers? >>guest: in the routine co...

When people see pictures like the graphic you've just shown, of course you understand why people get worried. but what people should remember is that we live in a radioactive world. the air around us is radioactive, rocks are radioactive. all of us receive a small radiation dose from the background radiation that surrounds us. now, as the radiation, the radioactive material from the japanese reactors is blown across the pacific, it's also simultaneously dispersed and hence, diluted. and the white house's conclusion based on the mathematical models they've done is that the amount of radiation p...

Radiation will become diluted as it travels, what should people realistically do? we saw the potassium iodide, this is insane, do not do that. >> it's crazy. people get background radiation from living on the planet earth. >> from flying. >> exactly. you get closer like 70 millie sieverts a year from moving around. people have to be realistic of what think think the real threat is. >> how do we prepare? >> what to do to prepare, get the information. the information is the most important thing. especially people who live like in japan, immediate proximity to the actual event. but we're not near...