Fukushima gave everyone on PLANET X-ray worth of radiation
Every person on Earth got the equivalent of an extra x-ray from the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a new study claims. Researchers have carried out the first global survey of radiation exposure caused by the meltdown of three nuclear reactors at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan after a tsunami struck in 2011. They concluded that people need not panic about the dosage. Every person on Earth got the equivalent of an extra x-ray from the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a new study claims. 'We don't need to worry,' Nikolaos Evangeliou at the Norwegian Institute for Air Research, whose team conducted the tests, told the annual meeting of the European Geosciences Union in Vienna, Austria, last month, according to New Scientist.
May-5-2017, 21:52:42 GMT
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