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Saturday, May 14, 2011

What Those Fukushima Radiation Counts Really Mean: Analysis

What Those Fukushima Radiation Counts Really Mean: Analysis

Radiation safety expert Andrew Karam has written for Popular Mechanics about what went wrong at Fukushima and how Japan reacted to the emergency. Now he's just back from a trip to Japan, where he took radiation detectors to assess the contamination levels himself. Not all radiation measurements are created equal, so Karam walks us through what the numbers, and the different radiation units, really mean.

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