Radiation doses

Here'a a comparison of how much radiation we can get from various sources. A Sievert (Sv) is a measure of radiation exposure named after Rolf Maximilian of that Ilk.

Note that it takes 1000 micro-Sv () to equal one milli-Sv (mSv). Click on the chart to read it - or go to the original here.

The MSM has monstered the whole thing grotesquely out of proportion. At Chernobyl a lot of radioactive particles escaped into the air and were ingested by animals and people, especially those working to entomb the reactor. None of that has happened in Japan.

At current levels, you would get more radiation from the sun in any highland location than from all sources in Japan. 

Hat-tip: Jill

Japan - seeing is believing

Call me slow-witted, but until I watched, in awed fascination, the superb collection of videos on the Telegraph blog (a sincere tribute to an outfit I often dump on), I simply had not fully appreciated how inadequate words, my medium, are to capture reality.

Unfortunately the lead picture in the link will probably set back the cause of nuclear energy for another generation and strengthen the hand of Loony Huhnes and all the other renewable energy zealots.