You can find the path of the jet stream here: http://squall.sfsu.edu/crws/jetstream.html
The likelihood of harmful levels of radiation from damaged nuclear reactors in Japan reaching Hawaii or the U.S. West Coast is low, the chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Monday.
If you'd like to see a virtually real time reading of radiation across the US, look here http://www.blackcatsystems.com/RadMap/map.html. Canada is just across the border, so it's a good indicator of Canadian conditions as well.
Check for the latest updates here to see if the risk has changed.
As of the writing of this posting, if there is a radiation leak, it will be at ground level, not shot high up into the atmosphere and subsequently carried by the jet stream. So, it will likely be absorbed by the ocean before reaching the West Coast of Canada and the U.S.
Despite all of this, if you do want to protect your children, you can have them take 65 mg of Potassium Iodide (KI) once every 24 hours. You start taking KI at least one hour before you expect to be exposed. Children are most at risk, and if you are over 40, you have the lowest chance of developing thyroid cancer or thyroid injury after contamination with radioactive iodine and a greater chance of having allergic reactions to KI. Adults should take 130 mg.
Mind you, I'm not a doctor, so I'm just regurgitating all the information I've absorbed today regarding the current situation and the remedies.
There has been a massive run on KI throughout the US and locally on the West Coast of Canada. In Canada, you can buy Potassium Iodide at some drug stores or at a local vitamin supplement store. You can pre-order 60 capsules of 65 mg each for $12, or buy 20 tables for $23 online.
The KI only protects again the uptake of radioactive iodine by the thyroid. Thyroid cancer, which is usually quite rare, can be treated quite successfully. The risk of inhaling radioactive iodine is low. The biggest risk is from drinking contaminated milk.
Check for the latest updates here to see if the risk has changed.
As of the writing of this posting, if there is a radiation leak, it will be at ground level, not shot high up into the atmosphere and subsequently carried by the jet stream. So, it will likely be absorbed by the ocean before reaching the West Coast of Canada and the U.S.
Despite all of this, if you do want to protect your children, you can have them take 65 mg of Potassium Iodide (KI) once every 24 hours. You start taking KI at least one hour before you expect to be exposed. Children are most at risk, and if you are over 40, you have the lowest chance of developing thyroid cancer or thyroid injury after contamination with radioactive iodine and a greater chance of having allergic reactions to KI. Adults should take 130 mg.
Mind you, I'm not a doctor, so I'm just regurgitating all the information I've absorbed today regarding the current situation and the remedies.
There has been a massive run on KI throughout the US and locally on the West Coast of Canada. In Canada, you can buy Potassium Iodide at some drug stores or at a local vitamin supplement store. You can pre-order 60 capsules of 65 mg each for $12, or buy 20 tables for $23 online.
The KI only protects again the uptake of radioactive iodine by the thyroid. Thyroid cancer, which is usually quite rare, can be treated quite successfully. The risk of inhaling radioactive iodine is low. The biggest risk is from drinking contaminated milk.
