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Making it all up as we go along — the Max Planck Institute’s scientifically flawed revision of the global risk for catastrophic nuclear power radiation escapes — the group expects that contamination of more than 40 kilobecquerels per square meter will occur approximately every 50 years in Western Europe 0

Citation Jos Lelieveld, Daniel Kunkel, and Mark G. Lawrence, Global risk of radioactive fallout after major nuclear reactor accidents, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 12(9): 4245-4258, doi:10.5194/acp-12-4245-2012 (12 May 2012) Note A currently free version of the paper is here. Good science in aid of bad premises turns into poor predictions The above paper is a [...]

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22 May 2012 – 17:05
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By BrainiYak

The combination of Japan’s incompetent and secretive government and the Fukushima Daiichi radiation release looks as if it is creating a slowly-evolving public health disaster 0

When fools lead There are governance lessons for the United States contained in Japan’s poorly managed Fukushima Daiichi radiation release.  I have noted aspects of these before — here, here, here, and here. The science journal, Nature, recently made a few observations that illustrate why thoughtful people are concerned about the Fukushima situation: Almost six [...]

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9 September 2011 – 15:30
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By BrainiYak