"The Panic over Fukushima" by a UC-Berkeley Physicist

UC-Berkeley Dept of Physics Professor Richard Muller has penned the following article:

"The Panic over Fukushima"

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000087239639044477240457758927044405933...

It's refreshing to see what a real scientist says about Fukushima instead of all the self-serving sensational hype that one gets from the media and self-serving propagandists.

For example:

Denver has particularly high natural radioactivity. It comes primarily from radioactive radon gas, emitted from tiny concentrations of uranium found in local granite. If you live there, you get, on average, an extra dose of .3 rem of radiation per year (on top of the .62 rem that the average American absorbs annually from various sources). A rem is the unit of measure used to gauge radiation damage to human tissue.

The International Commission on Radiological Protection recommends evacuation of a locality whenever the excess radiation dose exceeds .1 rem per year. But that's one-third of what I call the "Denver dose." Applied strictly, the ICRP standard would seem to require the immediate evacuation of Denver.