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Relax, That Scary Fukushima Headline Was Fake News
h/t InstapunditOn February 8, Adam Housley of Fox News reported a story with a terrifying headline: "Radiation at Japan's Fukushima Reactor Is Now at 'Unimaginable' Levels." Let's just pick up the most exciting paragraphs: The radiation levels at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant are now at "unimaginable" levels. [Housley] said the radiation levels -- as high as 530 sieverts per hour -- are now the highest they've been since 2011 when a tsunami hit the coastal reactor. "To put this in very simple terms. Four sieverts can kill a handful of people," he explained. The degree to which this story is misleading is amazing, but to explain it, we need a little bit of a tutorial. I recommend not drinking coffee near computer while reading Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-02-11 |
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