we dont inhale it when we fly or visit the dentist, but we can nowadays

ncreased emissions bring on cancer

 

Doctors say ever-growing exposure could eventually harm human health

 

By Tracy Sherlock, Vancouver SunMarch 26, 2011 2:07 AM

 

 

 

An official in a radiation protection suit scans dogs with a Geiger counter at a shelter in Koriyama in Fukushima prefecture, 60 kms west from the Fukushima nuclear power plant, on March 20, 2011.

Photograph by: KEN SHIMIZU, AFP/Getty Images

Although officials say there are no immediate health risks to British Columbians due to radiation from the damaged Japanese nuclear power plant, a group of doctors says the emissions will increase background radiation in the long term, which could harm human health.
“There is no doubt in the minds of medical experts ... that increasing the global burden of radioactivity will increase the incidence of cancer,” Physicians for Global Survival said in a news release.