The fact remains that USS Ronald Reagan was 100 miles away and took a dose of radiation that was well above the norm. That would seem to make a PhD sitting in Cambridge look rather foolish for writing the book that you posted.
Bingo.
For what it’s worth, I just heard this reported on Fox. They said it was a helicopter from the RR that flew through a plume, radiation detected upon landing and cleared.
The question is... what type of radioactive isotopes are being detected. If Cesium & Iodine are found in quantity then we have a significant problem. If we are detecting radioactive Nitrogen or Oxygen (which we could given the emergency core cooling techniques) then it’s not so much of a problem. The half-live of the latter isotopes is very short.
Read the article.
But, but, but his daddy was a nuclear engineer and that makes him an ex-spurt......
The PhD has no credability problem. If they actually received a months worth of exposure, the radiation exposure to the personel of the USS Ronald Reagan was still less than a person recieves in a 3 hour jet flight. If you note the exact wording in the article, they state the exposure was "less than" a months exposure. These people received more exposure to radiation in the flight from their hometown to the home port when they deployed.
I thought the economist in Cambridge looked kind of foolish from the get-go. Not on the basis of his (cut and paste) analysis, but because he never seemed to think that the information on which his analysis was based may be inaccurate or incomplete. Of course I was told I was an idiot. Time will tell...