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The reporting around this measurement was truly awful. I live in Japan, and it freaked out a bunch of my friends when really nothing had changed. It was also a
by new299 10y ago
The reporting around this measurement was truly awful. I live in Japan, and it freaked out a bunch of my friends when really nothing had changed.
It was also an estimate made based on the amount of noise seen on CCD camera images. That's a really awful way to measure radiation.
- vidarh 10y agoI think the worst reporting on it I've seen was when Robert X Cringely regurgitated a blogspam that badly mangled the Guardian article on it, and used it as "evidence" for an impending "China Syndrome" style meltdown, without even any evidence of a containment vessel breach: http://www.cringely.com/2017/02/16/no-fracking-way-fukushima-daiichi-worse-ever/ http://www.cringely.com/2017/02/16/no-fracking-way-fukushima... Complete with appeal to authority and failure to read the source he uses properly...
- new299 10y agoThat's pretty sad. :( I was a big fan of Triumph of the Nerds [1] and his other documentaries and books. :( [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_of_the_Nerds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_of_the_Nerds