| Submit your comments on this article |
| Home Front: Culture Wars |
| Relax, That Scary Fukushima Headline Was Fake News |
| 2017-02-11 |
| h/t Instapundit On 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 |
| #7 Drinks all around for the Monty Python references. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2017-02-11 11:15 |
| #6 He got better |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-02-11 10:21 |
| #5 It turned me into a newt. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2017-02-11 10:19 |
| #4 Not to mention the Radon levels of radiation you get for living in the mountains of Colorado are greater than the ones surrounding Fukushima. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2017-02-11 09:52 |
| #3 Fukushima is making my freckles cluster into farthing sized spots ! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-02-11 09:09 |
| #2 Ain't nucular radiation from that Sun. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-02-11 09:06 |
| #1 How about the thousands who actually die every year from skin cancer caused by exposure to that continuous nuclear radiation from the sun? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-02-11 09:04 |