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Injury, such as burns, loss of hair, bleeding gums, and what's happening is that your body, most of your organs are getting heavily irradiated. the dose that would kill 50% of the people exposed to this would be comparable to -- at least one of the measurements indicated to me earlier today would be working in an area for three or four hours. so what that means is that you don't promptly die. if you get doses that high, you will die or you may die, and it may take weeks. and it is not a very pretty thing. >> workers that typically find themselves in these situations in a crisis like this, are ...

The risk levels are and what the radiation levels are that they are exposing themselves to? >> i think very much so. i think the people who were chose or selected to stay behind know very well what consequences they may face. >> and typically are these people who have already been working in the plant or are they specialists who are brought in only for management of a crisis like this? >> i think they are workers who have hands-on experience at the plant. there may be instances where they may require emergency responders, like firemen and the like to come in as well. >> what is the likelihood ...

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