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The radiation level is '800,000 times higher than normal'. Objectively speaking, that's a big leak. It's just not anywhere that important.
by superhuzza 7y ago
The radiation level is '800,000 times higher than normal'. Objectively speaking, that's a big leak. It's just not anywhere that important.
- manfredo 7y agoNot if normal is close to zero. "Homicide rates tripled in the last year!" could easily mean 3 people got killed when last year was one. Never trust a proportional statement when the baseline is not provided. In this case, a pipe was measured to be leaking 800 becquerels per lite. One Curie is 37 trillion becquerels. It's 46 millionths of a Curie. A fatal dose is usually measured in the thousandths of a Curie. This is incredibly benign, and probably drops to difficult-to-detect levels 100 meters from the submarine. Really, this article strikes me as low effort at best, fear mongering at worst.
- superhuzza 7y agoAfter reading your comment and some other articles, you're right. I guess I was just shocked by the relative difference even if it was fairly meaningless in reality.