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Re:First contact made with melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima ... by acidburnNSA on Friday February 15, 2019 @04:12PM (#19174771)
Centuries? Have you been to the Chernobyl exclusion zone recently? [1] That was the worst accident imaginable. Fukushima is much less bad. Natural background radiation in places like Ramsar, Iran are way higher than what you'd experience at Fukushima even right after it happened. And people have been living healthily there for hundreds of years. Low-dose effects of radiation seem to not be all that bad.

[1] https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/060418-chernobyl...

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Re:First contact made with melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima ... by acidburnNSA on Friday February 15, 2019 @09:27PM (#19176629)
I'm going to correct myself and say that Ramsar rates are what you'd experience around Fukushima a year out, not right after it happened. Some of those workers got way higher doses than anything natural.
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