Fukushima This Morning...
At current radiation levels, work an eight-hour shift at the plant gate, and get the equivalent radiation dose of a pelvic CAT-scan...
At current radiation levels, work for 2000 hours at at the plant gate, and get the equivalent radiation exposure of a one-shot short-term lethal dose...
The reactors are now putting out only half as much heat as they did Friday night--and only 1/200 of their full power (but that is still 19 megawatts)--and that amount of heat will drop by half in the next six months.
So it now looks to me at least like we probably won't have a serious wave of thyroid cancers in Japan from this over the next generation--unless something else goes wrong,,,
