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Yikes. That’s what we need, a key European breadbasket country poisoned to hell in a needless war.
by whythre 4y ago
Yikes. That’s what we need, a key European breadbasket country poisoned to hell in a needless war.
- SapporoChris 4y ago"Close to the reactor, you would normally receive a dose of about three units - called microsieverts - every hour. But on Thursday, that jumped to 65 microSv/hrs - about five times more than you would get on one transatlantic flight." https://web.archive.org/web/20220225165134/https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60528828 https://web.archive.org/web/20220225165134/https://www.bbc.c... 65 microSv or 65 µSv is a really trivial amount. It should inspire a yawn not a yikes. https://xkcd.com/radiation/ https://xkcd.com/radiation/
- whythre 4y agoDoesn’t sound trivial. You go on enough high altitude flights, you will suffer cellular damage- and this dose is occurring daily. Furthermore, this current situation could easily worsen if further damage is done to the nuclear plants.