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In with chad myers. i see you have japan on the map. you must be talking about radiation. >> well, it depends on which way the wind blows, so to speak, which way some of this radiation dust and humidity can go. what we don't want is a wind out of the northeast that blows wind, blows radiation, blows dust and all that back toward tokyo, back toward the most pop lated places. and what we've seen so far, this is going to be the next 45 hours, watch that wind barb right there because there's the plant, that wind barb kind of slips around a little bit, back and forth, by mainly offshore. light and ...

It's being asked. >> no. unless you are exposed to radiation dust like in the immediate vicinity of the accident and that dust gets just mechanically off your clothes to somebody else, i think the only way that somebody could pass along internally deposited radiation as opposed to external radiation is if iodine 131 is ingested it can be excreted in the milk so for a nursing mother potentially who has ingested radioiodine it can go to the infant. that's the only way you can pass it along. >> you are the expert. i just need one or two questions now. it seems like we grew up in this country not ...

Unless you are exposed to radiation dust like in the immediate vicinity of the accident and that dust gets just mechanically off your clothes to somebody else, i think the only way that somebody could pass along internally deposited radiation as opposed to external radiation is if iodine 131 is ingested it can be excreted in the milk so for a nursing mother potentially who has ingested radioiodine it can go to the infant. that's the only way you can pass it along. >> you are the expert. i just need one or two questions now. it seems like we grew up in this country not worried about x-rays for ...

Ingestion of cow milk increased cows grazed, of course in the grass that contained iodine after settling in the soil, it was increased about 87-fold. we knew that about 20 years later. in adolescents risk increased 12 -- as you get older, then obviously the risk for cancer induction is less because it depends on how much more years of your lifespan you have to live. >> i understand. >> next question. if you are exposed to radiation, can you contaminate someone else? is it contagious? that's a primitive question but it's being asked. >> no. unless you are exposed to radiation dust like in the i...