Hannah's exposure to radiation, since growing children a are much more at risk than adults.
We were reassured that our geiger counter shoes external radiation to be reasonably low. But we wanted to check if she had been exposed through food to the more dangerous internal radiation. We haven't been very reassured by the public health measures on food safty since the radiation limit seems to have been set quite high (3x higher than the Russians limit after Chernobyl) and testing / enforcement seems patchy. For example most of this years rice crop from Fukushima was cleared for sale!
Rika was able to find a company offering urine tests for radioactive Iodine and Cesium. So we booked a test and started the slow job of collecting the 2 litres of urine required for the test.
But we eventually got the result. Iodine and Cesium-134 below detectable levels and Cesium-137 at 0.15 bq/kg, just over the detectable level. So low, but not zero, and certainly lower than we'd feared.
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