I was watching this earlier laughing at the chicken littles on the cam’s chat. They were all panicking about double digit readings, it needs to be 10K+ on that particular meter before it is anything above background radiation (at least per one non-chicken little poster there who looked up the info on that meter).
Someone please start putting thorazine in the water supply.
It has bounced around from 28 to 52 to 42.
What is considered a dangerous level?
But anyone who has even a very slight concern with this here in the US; as personal health risk; is a complete airhead.
The risk of your laptop computer battery exploding, is 1,000 times more likely to cause someone injury.
Totally information free link. Without any information as to what the units are, or even what SCALE the meter is set for, the digits are completely meaningless. A waste of bandwidth.
Btw. did you know that the US did nuke itself pretty often? ;-)
and i´m not talking about nukes detonated under the ground!
Yet you are still here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA8z94MXo9M&feature=related
Successor to the spill cam.
I happen to be old enough to have lived through hundreds of above ground nuclear tests in the Pacific and Nevada. They released many orders of magnitude of the pittance the Japanese reactors are likely to release even under the worst case.
It is past time the press and uninformed grow up and get real.
The biggest problem we face is not radiation, but the debt and reliance on foreign energy sources.
A number is not a measurement. It needs units and it needs a scale.
It’s like saying, “I live 5 from here.” 5 miles? 5 feet? 5 meters? 5 x 10^3 meters?
It would also be helpful to know what the danger of various levels are.