You don't need to be a nuclear scientist to become somewhat educated on the situation, and the consequences of it. My hubby, SirKit, has been following this, and has been doing a lot of reading on the subject. He'd been hearing a lot about the LEVELS of radiation to which folks may have been exposed, but nothing about the DOSES represented by those levels. This story gives that information, so that's why I pinged him to this thread.
We were talking about the levels of exposure this evening, and how there are places in the world where the 'background radiation' is fairly high, and folks in those places still don't have people dying of cancer or other radiation related diseases in any larger amounts than anywhere else. It's even possible that small amounts of radiation might be GOOD for people, to encourage activity in their immune systems, but as he said, the anti-nuke people would NEVER believe that, so they keep up the drumbeat and hysteria about how radiation exposure is BAAAAD.
What about right here in the US? Everyone knows, or may be themselves, a person who has endured radiation therapy and an accompanying series of x-rays for the treatment of cancer.
Is that a lot different from low level nuclear accident exposure?