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      05-14-2011, 08:16 PM   #29
andrewbmw
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Hello sfax, really appreciate your posts and they are helpful. Your wife should be really proud of you,


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The shortage and delay in components from Japan is almost solely down to power supply issues across the country because they are missing one power station and lost a lot of infrastructure. It has nothing to do with contamination.

People are scared of radiation because it can cause cancer and it's invisible but most people don't understand it properly. Do some research on Wiki. You might be surprised. I remember being surprised at just how few people actually died as a result of Chernobyl (where the radiation was much more widespread) and just how many people contract lung cancer every year as a direct result of radon gas. Wiki "Radon" and you'll see what I mean.

You really would have to eat components that were produced right next door to the reactor to increase your risk to a level even worth considering.

It's great that you want to protect your family but what people are trying to tell you is that in this case, there is nothing to protect them from.

On a practical level it's a futile exercise anyway because it's also almost impossible to avoid contact with Japanese electronic components because of the way that global supply chains work. BMW can't tell you because they probably don't know. And it's not just cars of course. They'll be everywhere in 1000s of different devices and you'll have no idea.
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