Fox News ate my nuclear dolphins, By Mark Morford

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Near as I can tell, we are all going to die a slow incomprehensible radioactive death relatively soon now. Or we're not.

Reports are flooding in from around the world that the Fukushima meltdown was one of the worst disasters in mankind's short history, a game-changing horror of unimaginable scope and psychological timbre that will wreak emotional and environmental havoc for years, decades and even millennia to come, spreading radioactive particles over thousands of square miles of Japan and beyond.

What's more, none of that is really true, the disaster isn't really all that bad, the radiation levels are relatively low and Japan is feeling much better already, thanks for asking.

The Fukushima meltdown is easily as terrible as 1979's Three Mile Island, which, it turns out, wasn't all that bad, depending on who you don't care enough to ask. Fukushima is probably the second worst disaster of its kind in history, even though no one really knows how to measure the full extent of these things so that's probably false as well, although we do know it's not as bad as Chernobyl because nothing could ever really be that devastating ever again, except for the fact that it totally could.



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