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>things are still running

running from the radiation released from the shelling of nuke plants, not running in the "performing normally" sense

"Radiation levels increased about 20-fold on Thursday"

https://web.archive.org/web/20220225165134/https://www.bbc.c...

"The rise was caused by heavy military vehicles stirring contaminated soil in the 4,000-sq-km (2,485 sq-mile) exclusion zone surrounding the abandoned plant, Ukraine's State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate reported ."

Seems it was not from the shelling.

>Seems it was not from the shelling.

We think you're missing the larger point

Yikes. That’s what we need, a key European breadbasket country poisoned to hell in a needless war.

"Close to the reactor, you would normally receive a dose of about three units - called microsieverts - every hour. But on Thursday, that jumped to 65 microSv/hrs - about five times more than you would get on one transatlantic flight." https://web.archive.org/web/20220225165134/https://www.bbc.c...

65 microSv or 65 µSv is a really trivial amount. It should inspire a yawn not a yikes.

https://xkcd.com/radiation/

Doesn’t sound trivial. You go on enough high altitude flights, you will suffer cellular damage- and this dose is occurring daily. Furthermore, this current situation could easily worsen if further damage is done to the nuclear plants.

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