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Originally Posted by Mazrim
That's the same article that Flames89 posted earlier.
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Yup. Although they have moved the article to that new location, so worth posting again. And quoting...
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There was and will *not* be any significant release of radioactivity.
By “significant” I mean a level of radiation of more than what you would receive on – say – a long distance flight, or drinking a glass of beer that comes from certain areas with high levels of natural background radiation.
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But really, this is the part that's been getting me:
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I have been reading every news release on the incident since the earthquake. There has not been one single (!) report that was accurate and free of errors (and part of that problem is also a weakness in the Japanese crisis communication). By “not free of errors” I do not refer to tendentious anti-nuclear journalism – that is quite normal these days. By “not free of errors” I mean blatant errors regarding physics and natural law, as well as gross misinterpretation of facts, due to an obvious lack of fundamental and basic understanding of the way nuclear reactors are build and operated. I have read a 3 page report on CNN where every single paragraph contained an error.
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I'm not a physicists, but I do bother to check my basic facts before forming opinions, and with even that... Actually, scratch that.
Most of the time when I've read articles about this nuclear reactor issue, you only need to read the article itself to see that what the reporter is claiming as a possibility is clearly not based on anything, and the eye-catching headlines are more often than not directly contradicted by the actual content of the story.
The state of mass media saddens me, globally and locally (here in Finland).