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Originally Posted by tk13
I definitely get the whole concept that the building is built to protect the outside world from this stuff... but if there is a meltdown, what about the people working in the facility?
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They are already ****ed.
They've known for 60 years that in the field of Health Physics there is no acceptable level of radiation that is "safe". The doses considered "safe" are really just those with the most palatable risk.
If radiation was 1000x regular levels in the control room, as reported, those people are going to die of cancer. There's really no way around it. They may not get acute radiation sickness, but it's not going to be pretty.
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