International Nuclear Event Scale(en.wikipedia.org)
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International Nuclear Event Scale
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Nuclear_Event_Scale
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Currently on level 4: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Nuclear_Event_Sca...
Currently unassigned, if you’re wanting more than someone’s guess as to the category. It’s safe to say the event will be at least category 3, and that it is not (presently) above category 4, but we need to wait at least until the event is over before the category can be assigned very accurately.
That's exactly what currently means. It's not written in stone.
Check out how traffic to this page spiked today:
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Interesting - this is the first I've heard about the Goiânia accident: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident
I checked the source that was meant and found that it claimed something completely different - there 56 fatalities from the site, 4k people with cancer and dozens of fatalities from those. Very different from '+1 000 000'. Apparently someone added sourced info, and someone else just edited it while leaving the source there, which expired (and no one bothered to check it).
I edited the article hastily and apparently I made it claim that there were 40 000 fatalities. Oops.Someone corrected that and found my source, without me even listing it, but they were still fatalities.
So, the lesson here?
Wikipedia - perpetually work in progress, may not be even close. Still very usefull, but keep your eyes open and mind critical.
The conclusions you can make about INES, Chernobyl and nuclear energy are vastly different when you consider a single number.