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View Poll Results: There is no radiation level information publicly available because:
The Japanese are unilaterally supressing that information. 6 40.00%
Many countries and companies are supressing that information. 4 26.67%
There is too much chaos over there as a result of quake and tsunami. 5 33.33%
No one in the zone has a functioning geiger counter. 0 0%
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Old 03-17-2011, 12:18 PM
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There has also been confusion, possibly deliberate, between values in microsieverts and millisieverts (1000 microsieverts).
Just do the math and move the decimal point It's not deliberate, they are just trying not to use alot of zeros following a decimal point

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When values were reported days ago, they were compared to "a chest x-ray". Well, if it takes one second of an open shutter to get an x-ray, a rate of radiation of that level in the environment would be 3600 times that per hour!
Naw, just throw that above thought out - trust me, it's not an accurate comparison (chest x-rays are usually taken at 1/120 of a second, but the radiation is not the same, you can't use that in a formula for exposure)

The chest x-ray comparison is a good one, you can trust that.

One chest x-ray is 0.1 mSv (millisevert) of biologic exposure
One year of hanging around on earth is 3 mSv of biologic exposure

The CDC has lots of charts explaining the difference between the radiology terms used for radiation emitted from something, versus biologic exposure risk, versus energy absorbed by tissue during exposure.
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