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The pilots picked up the radiation while flying around the plant as it was venting steam. They didn't pick up that radiation at the aircraft carrier 100 miles
by bhousel 16y ago
The pilots picked up the radiation while flying around the plant as it was venting steam. They didn't pick up that radiation at the aircraft carrier 100 miles away, so your assumptions about crazy high levels of radiation at the facility don't add up at all.
- fxj 16y agothe ship personnel got the dose! http://abcnews.go.com/International/uss-carrier-ronald-reagan-moved-detecting-radioactive-plume/story?id=13129409 http://abcnews.go.com/International/uss-carrier-ronald-reaga... "The maximum potential radiation dose received by any ship's force personnel aboard the ship when it passed through the area was less than the radiation exposure received from about one month of exposure to natural background radiation from sources such as rocks, soil, and the sun," Davis said. According to 7th Fleet Commander and Spokesman Jeff Davis, the ships were moved away from the downwind direction of the plant as a precautionary measure on Sunday.