“One-hundred millisieverts an hour is…a radiation level strong enough to give someone a five-year dose of radiation within one hour,” said Masayuki Ono. In other words, if you stood half-a-metre away from one of these puddles for one hour you would be exposed to five times the annual allowable dose for an international nuclear worker. If you stood there for 10 hours you’d develop radiation sickness with symptoms such as a drop in white blood cells and nausea. As Michiaki Furukawa, a nuclear chemist, told Reuters: “This is a huge amount of radiation. The situation is getting worse.” independent.co.uk/voices/comment/sorry-sorry-sorry-as-the-nuclear-radiation-crisis-at-fukushima-deepens-at-least-tepco-know-the-script-8778017.html
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