This is how the news media, trying to disseminate information, sometimes makes things worse. They have a “nuclear expert” on the phone, commenting on the explosion. He says: “As I understand it, this explosion was caused by gas inside the core, but the containment is made of steel and concrete and was not breeched, so (blah, blah, blah…” Of course, given that “the containment” contains (hopefully) “the core”, that statement is contradictory and makes no sense, and at best can only cause confusion.
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Then he was asked about the Japanese government’s decision to start handing out iodine. He answer best I can recall, was: “Umm, well, iodine is used to, in terms of, for helping to, um, it’s to help, radiation, for to help in eliminate, in terms of, it’s better for, and in terms of exposure, for the radiation.”
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Then he was asked about the Japanese government’s decision to start handing out iodine. He answer best I can recall, was: “Umm, well, iodine is used to, in terms of, for helping to, um, it’s to help, radiation, for to help in eliminate, in terms of, it’s better for, and in terms of exposure, for the radiation.”
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You gotta love experts, in terms of answers to questions.