Not 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 proporti

Not 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.