I was flattered by all the advice I got to eschew a return through Narita, Tokyo's airport, and avoid any radiation risk. I spent about an hour in transit, and got about 50x the radiation from flying at 37000 feet than I would have standing for an similar time near the troubled reactors. I was more worried over the food. Normally they stock local Japanese provisions in transit. You can tell because the meals taste better than the standard fare. Well, on the final leg we were served sub-standard fare. Bad food in this case is safer food.
The risk of this hour in transit was trivial. You can tell by comparing it with a normal activity - eating a banana.
Bananas are radioactive and there is a Banana Equivalent Dose (BED) standard. For those of you who like equivalence, consider this:
A radiation dose equivalent of 100 μSv (10 mrem, or 1,000 BED) increases an average adult human's risk of death by about one micromort—the same risk as driving 40 miles in a car, eating 40 tablespoons of peanut butter, or of smoking 1.4 cigarettes.
News today is 10x the amount of radioactive cesium and iodine fell in the Tokyo rainfall - but still at minuscule levels. A banana produces about 14 Bq (becquerels). The normal fall is about 100 bananas per meter, and thus spiked 10x to a kilo-banana. Good thing I stayed indoors and didn't drink tap water. Bad for the Japanese if this continues, although still at very low levels. (And I bet you didn't know that low levels of radiation were all around, all the time?)
There is a chart below showing all the equivalence, which I sourced from The Big Picture. Click on it to make it readable. A day near the plant is 3.5 μSv, or 35 bananas. A six hour flight from NY to LA is 12 times more radiation, or 400 bananas. My 18 hour flight is 36 times more than a day in the Fukushima area, or a little over a 1200 bananas (1.2 kiloBED) - thus worth about one micromort, as noted in the comment above.
Y'all were at more risk commuting every day than I was.
This doesn't mean you can't have small groupings of particular species or cultivars, just avoid those truly massive displays.
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The risk of this hour in transit was trivial. You can tell by comparing it with a normal activity - eating a banana.
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Posted by: Andy | July 11, 2011 at 12:03 AM
Elliott Life, I checked out the site, lots of great info. As to starting Yelnick up again, I am focused on venture capital and blog occasionally at bullpencap.com. My current take is this:
we have been in a large triangle since Feb, a running triangle (B larger than A), now in leg Dthe first test of the triangle was bottoming in June above the prior low pointthe second, to come, is topping below the May "Osama bin Laden" peak of leg B
If this is what happens, we would be in the leg D summer rally, and then break down in a fall dip, followed by a final thrust up to new highs sometime in 2012, possibly peaking as early as January.
Sometimes the leg D rally seems strong, and then some news event (like a Greek default) jinks the markets down in leg E, which peters out in force and the prior strong trend resumes. As part of all of this, economic news is likely bottoming right now, so we should see better news over the next six months, helping continue (or in socioeconomics terms coincident with) the thrust up.
Posted by: yelnick | June 27, 2011 at 11:04 AM
Yelnick, you should start another markets blog.
Things may be about to heat back up in stocks.
A guy named McVerry has started a nice Elliott wave summary report if anyone is interested in charts at
http://www.mcverryreport.com (just a link not spam)
Posted by: Elliott Life | June 27, 2011 at 10:03 AM
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Good to hear you are back. Thanks for ruining my love of bananas.
At least I still have my love of the markets! :)
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