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You Can Stop Worrying About A Radiation Disaster In Japan -- Here's Why

This was originally posted as a comment on Japan Death Toll Climbs Astronomically As Nuclear Crisis Spreads. 
 
UPDATE: Since posting this, we have learned that it was written by Dr. Josef Oehmen, a research scientist at MIT. It was originally posted here.

I repeat, there was and will *not* be any significant release of radioactivity from the damaged Japanese reactors.

By "significant" I mean a level of radiation of more than what you would receive on - say - a long distance flight, or drinking a glass of beer that comes from certain areas with high levels of natural background radiation.

I have been reading every news release on the incident since the earthquake.

There has not been one single report that was accurate and free of errors (and part of that problem is also a weakness in the Japanese crisis communication).

By “not free of errors” I do not refer to tendentious anti-nuclear journalism – that is quite normal these days. By “not free of errors” I mean blatant errors regarding physics and natural law, as well as gross misinterpretation of facts, due to an obvious lack of fundamental and basic understanding of the way nuclear reactors are build and operated.  I have read a 3 page report on CNN where every single paragraph contained an error.

 

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