Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110314:17:24:00
Radiation. some radiation can't get past the skin, it bounces off the skin, others pass all the way through like x rays. some last for a second and exist no longer, while others can exist for hundreds of thousands of years. what really matters is how radioactive is a substance, what type of radio activity it is and how long you're exposed. that's why the japanese government in all of these cases is simply encouraging people to stay inside their homes rather than being out in the open air where they would have a higher level of expose chur. we have to put it in context. we are exposed to radiat...