Ist safe to buy from japan? What about hot particles from fukushima?

[Anonymous]

Maybe my question weird,, is there somone can help?

I want buy laptop and some car parts from japan but I really scare from what happend in fukushima...

Now ist safe to buy laptop and some car parts? Or there's chance that hot particles from fuku attached on these things?

What about radiation from fuku? Ist possible that effected these things?

I know mobile have radiation but ist same the one in fuku?

Updates

+1 y

Anyone from physics field?

[atomique]

Its fine. I am a Material Engineer by education. You will get much more radiation from stepping outside day. Your mobile phone is a bigger danger. Unless you are in the waters right outside the plant you are in no danger. Remember distance, time, and shielding. You are likely very, very far from Fukushima Daiichi. They have worked very hard to shield the environment from the material. Also some time has passed.

[atomique]

*Materials Engineer

[Asker]

What about hot particles from fuku do u have idea about it?

[atomique]

Yes. That stuff can travel very far, but there very little of it. Its like dropping a 100,000 drops of food dyed in to Lake Michigan. Could you detect the dyed in the water? With extreme effort maybe, but with so little dyed in a body of water so big there is very very very little effect on the color of the that it can be ignore. Could you have some of those hot particles in you? Yes its possible, but it you be an amount so small you could ignore it. The sun and your mobile will give you a much higher dose.

[atomique]

Daily your body takes in 1.9 µg of Uranium, 3 µg of Thorium, and 0.39 mg of Potassium 40 and you still live.

[atomique]

Get this. A single centimeter of plastic is sufficient for shielding against alpha particles, as is a half-inch of paper. Plastic can be used to form an efficient barrier for dealing with high-energy beta radiation.

[Asker]

Ok great info

1 more Q do u think I buy it from china it would be safer than if I buy it from japan?

[atomique]

It would be no different. If I bought from China I would worry about quality depending on the company and factories involved. My labtop was built in Shanghai

[Asker]

No I mean ist safer from radition and hot particles? I understand the quality point

Thanks

[atomique]

Barely

[Asker]

Ok thank u

[atomique]

Thanks

[JackKerouac77]

I wouldn't worry about it, because there's literally nothing you can do about it.

There's radiation in the ocean, plastic in the ocean, the whole environment around the world is fucked in some way or another by human tampering.

Your buying of car parts/materials will matter very little in the long run.

[Asker]

I think I will change my mind I will buy it from somewhere else I know every thing have risk but maybe from somewhere else it will have less radiation and less hot particles maybe?

[JackKerouac77]

I think you're dwelling on a specific thing too much, but do as you wish.

[Climber]

There is more radioactivity in the US from the nuclear experiments in the 50-ies and the disaster on 3 miles island, then there is in Japan from Fukujima (except around the plant itself of course)

[atomique]

500 km from the plant got a good dose but not enough to totally flip out.

[LauraMarx]

I have bought a lot of products from Japan in the past few months and I have not died or mutated I think you're okay

[Illusive_Man]

Yes it is , they have people literally living on the same country... same continent.

[Asker]

That's not enough reason for me... How they live and is there effect on them? Who know what happen to them I think the worst part is the hot particles

[Illusive_Man]

Do you own research then :P

[Asker]

The reaserch said that hot particles can move by air and attached to many objects but I'm not sure exactly what that mean.

That's y in asking help from someone who is in physics field

[Illusive_Man]

Do you understand what equivalent dosage is?

[Asker]

I can google it then tell you yes I know but honestly I have no idea about it.

Tell me about

[Illusive_Man]

Ionization damage from alpha/beta/gamma radiation?
Siverts.

Come on , this is GaG not physics research , use Google.

[PicklesMr]

If you need some car parts, Just buy them in US... It will be much cheaper and more safe. I use
for such purpose, it provides really great service

[Klaatu51]

i've bought from japan on ebay some times

never faced a prob

[Watermelonoma]

eh i think you would be fine. The only reason i would worry is if i were buying food imported from Japan, particularly fish

[atomique]

The fish in some parts of Wisconsin is more dangerous thanks to the paper industry.

[Watermelonoma]

@atomique

Well, at the end of the day, i probably wouldn't worry about it much anyways since our government checks for food quality

[maiez]

Perfectly fine, just dont buy Uranium glasses and then use them every day.

[Anonymous]

I refuse to buy Japanese where possible, they slaughter dolphins and are cruel to animals, they are soulless, they deserved those bombs.