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To: NormsRevenge
I'm gonna sing the Doom song.
But seriously if you are 8 km away from the plant this is big time serious bad news. If you are 8,000 km away in Los Angeles not so much
39 posted on 03/15/2011 1:21:28 PM PDT by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: GonzoGOP
But seriously if you are 8 km away from the plant this is big time serious bad news. If you are 8,000 km away in Los Angeles not so much

Radiation levels as measured at the the plant gate seem to be in the 400 micro-sievert range. That is a level you wouldn't want to live and work in but you could safely pass through it.

the amount of radiation passing through a specific area is inversely proportional to the square of the distance of that area from the energy source. So, using Google earth and its ruler, a very conservative estimate would place the gate 1km from the plant. At 8 km away, you will be facing .0004/(8^2) = .0004/64 = 6.25 micro-sieverts.

Since the only possible gate I see from Google Earth is perhaps 100m from the plant, in this case, the unit of measure becomes meters. 8km = 8000 meters. so, the levels at 8000meters when readings 100m from the plant are 400 micro-sieverts is .0004/(8000^2) = .0004/64,000,000 = 6.25 pico-sieverts - an amount that would be lost in the noise of normal background radiation.

73 posted on 03/15/2011 1:46:48 PM PDT by fso301
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