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moderatelyradicalliberal3/26/2011 10:57:42 pm PDT

re: #11 freetoken

Good grief.

I don’t know if Kyodo got it right at 10 million times… or what fraction of that is from I134, but Iodine 134 has a very short half life - 4 minutes or 52 minutes (depending on state). Yet the reactor was supposedly shut down (rods inserted) immediately when the quake struck 15 days ago.

Something is wrong.

I feel like these numbers have no context. What do they mean for humans? 10 million times above normal sounds like “you will have cancer by tomorrow”.