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When you hear the words 'radiation leak 800 000 times normal' and 'nothing to be alarmed about' -either someone is lying to you, or simply doesnt have the slightest clue what they are talking about.

Firstly a shut down nuclear submarine reactor poses very little threat.  1) they are not that big and 2) Its a metal can, inside another metal can (the submarine) -its quite hard to get the stuff out.

Indeed it wouldnt surprise me that even if the reactor went full critical that you could get a million times background a few meters from the sub.  Sea water is pretty good at screening, and the sea isnt like the atmosphere.  With the atmosphere dust particles eventually fall out.  In the sea the dissolved cesium just keeps getting more and more dilute. 

I might do a back of an envelope calculation on the voice of thunder channel just to get some feel of the worst case scenario.

At any rate, half a dozen 'premium' news organizations published something that was obviously BS!

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Martel DuVigneaud

For giggles I left my Radex radiation detector running for about an hour and got an average of 0.00 microsieverts above background. ;)

Farley X Wilbur

Great explanation for someone who was last in a physics or chemistry lab many years ago. My specialty was geology with emphasis on paleontology so I hunted fossils, a far cry from radioactivity. (Although I worked and currently live in Colorado so I loved your account of your trip here.)

Farley X Wilbur

I went to your Amazon store; just wish I could afford some of the scientific toys. I often try to do follow ups and read some scientific papers on the topics like radioactivity, but I mostly find them at Elsevier. Do you know of a cheaper avenue for reading the publications? I can at least read the abstracts, but now that I'm retired $49/month is too big a bite from my budget.