Page 34 - Gamma Rays News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

This situation? >> reporter: well, we know very little from the workers themselves, elliot. there's been a few little reports. one of the workers, a woman, wrote a blog about her experience inside. it was subsequently taken down. one of the wives of the workers literally told people she cried when she found out that her husband who had been pulled out for a period of time had to go back in. it's a little of the realty. the personal realty for people who are working inside the plants over there. look, elliot, it's unbelievable work really. first of all, they know this type of work. they know th...

>> exactly. as you say, the iaea, the u.n. nuclear watch dog, are saying that two people are missing, dozens are injured, and at least 28 people have been exposed to high levels of radiation. >> originally, sanjay, there were more than 800 workers. on tuesday, they brought out 750 of them. there was a core group of 50. now there are 180 they're recycling through. one can only imagine. in terms of their future health, they know in some cases they're going to die. >> yeah, they certainly know the deal here specifically in terms of the radiation. they're looking at levels presumably, also trying ...

That can have serious effects on the human body. >> we're going to take a look now at how radiation can affect the body. we've prepared this chart here. we're going to start in the thyroid. you may have heard those iodine pills you can try to take to try to protect the thyroid. radioactive iodine exposure raises long-term risk of thyroid cancer. moderate to heavy radiation can cause nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. it can affect your bone marrow cells. none of these alone is fatal. we're going to talk about the dna too, gamma rays damaged the dna molecules and increased the long-term for cancer...

Going to die. >> yeah, they certainly know the deal here specifically in terms of the radiation. they're looking at levels presumably, also trying to figure out what that means for them. one of the things is, they try and protect themselves as much as possible, even with masks like this, for example. we showed suits as well, but they don't do that much in terms of the most dangerous forms of radiation, these gamma rays. these are devices which they're probably carrying around. this one measures the background gamma radiation, and if there's certain, they will sweep an area to see how much gamm...

One of the things is, they try and protect themselves as much as possible, even with masks like this, for example. we showed suits as well, but they don't do that much in terms of the most dangerous forms of radiation, these gamma rays. these are devices which they're probably carrying around. this one measures the background gamma radiation, and if there's certain, they will sweep an area to see how much gamma radiation is coming off of that. that's just giving them the information to your point, anderson. there's not a lot you can do to shield yourself. >> jim, they say they've been kind of ...