Some meltdown, huh?
The Wall Street Journal is reporting the following declining radiation measurements in Japan today:
Tokyo: 0.105 microsievert an hour. Normal is 0.035 microsievert an hour.
Fukushima City: 3.17 microsieverts an hour, compared to 5.85 microsieverts an hour a week ago and 22.90 microsieverts an hour two weeks ago.
Iwaki City: 0.81 microsieverts an hour, compared to 2.05 microsieverts an hour a week ago and 1.34 microsieverts an hour two weeks ago.
In this statement from the article, "10,000" is a typo, and should read "100,000":
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission sets the annual occupational dosage limit for workers who deal with radiation at 50,000 microsieverts and the limit for a nuclear event at 10,000 microsieverts.
It's the same sort of error, easy to make, which TEPCO made in recent days stating a radiation comparison, not the reading itself, was 10 million times higher than another reading, when they meant 100,000 times higher. And the numbskulls crucified them for it.
Zeroes get inadvertently added and subtracted all too often, it seems, in science, mathematics . . . and politics!
The good news is that the bad news is not as bad as it was.
