Articles by Patrick J. Kiger
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Latest Radioactive Leak at Fukushima: How Is It Different?
Patrick J. Kiger - National Geographic,
26 Aug 2013
The water from the leaking tank is so heavily contaminated with strontium-90, cesium-137, and other radioactive substances that a person standing less than two feet away would receive, in an hour’s time, a radiation dose equivalent to five times the acceptable exposure for nuclear workers. Within ten hours, the exposed person would develop radiation sickness, with symptoms such as nausea and a drop in white blood cells.
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