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Radiation from explosions in reactors in Fukushima won´t affect Latin America

Because of the nuclear accident in Fukushima, Japan, after having suffered an earthquake of 8.9 degrees and then a tsunami, s has been much talk about how radiation affected the inhabitants of the planet, especially to workers who are close to the problem and may die immediately.

The effects of radiation depends on several factors: the radiation dose, exposure time and distance to the source of this radiation bouncing.

The main source is the uranium-235 rods located in the center of the nuclear reactor in Fukushima and those who are in these bars are the greatest danger they have and are precisely those heroic workers who are there.

The secondary source would be the fission of Uranium 235 such bars in the damaged reactor forming radioactive isotopes such as Cesium 137, Strontium-90 and iodine-131, which also become sources of radiation. And if an explosion occurs, these elements could reach the air, water, animals begin to close and then distributed to the northeast of Japan.

If there is what is called “meltdown” of the bars of uranium 235 and an explosion, the effects will basically there so that humans could not live there ever because of the enormous danger of radioactive contamination.

If you are in America has nothing to fear. While it is true that the explosion might occur Fukushima radioactive cloud, it would be diluted on its way in the thousands of miles that separate Japan from America or Europe.

And if you did not know, all humans are exposed daily to radiation.

(source: El Comercio; Photo: elpais.com)