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Sobering aerial video of Fukushima nuclear complex.
What’s a sievert? He was Rolf Sievert, a Swedish radiation physicist obsessed with dose. And now it’s the sievert, or Sv, established in 1979 as an international unit for radiation dosing:
1 Sv = 1 J/kg
Most illuminating demonstration of the tsunami and quake damage I’ve seen. Harrowing.
wnyc:
The New York Times knows when to let images speak for themselves. -A.P.
Sadness.
A girl who has been isolated at a makeshift facility to screen, cleanse and isolate people with high radiation levels, looks at her dog through a window in Nihonmatsu, northern Japan, March 14, 2011. (Reuters)
(Source: matthewkeys, via shortformblog)
Just in: Audio report from NHK World delivering news that the fuel rods at Fukushima 1 nuclear power plant have been exposed, which could lead to a massive nuclear meltdown.
(Source: matthewkeys, via shortformblog)
Tsunami wave heights across the Pacific after Japanese quake. h/t @pourmecoffee
