Even if the winds change direction, which is unlikely, fears of massive radiation poisoning throughout the region are vastly overblown.
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In the year 775, the Earth was hit with a massive burst of radiation.
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Sunday morning came another gaffe, when Tepco admitted that three workers who been exposed to massive doses of radiation had not been forewarned.
Historically, whenever man or beast's been bombarded with massive amounts of radiation the results have either been gruesome or wholly fantastical (see: any superhero origin story).
Some revolutionaries were slighted by the scientific establishments of their time--like Rosalind Franklin's exclusion from sharing in the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the structure of DNA. Described by her peers as a "genius, " she exposed herself to massive amounts of radiation to try to get the best possible X-ray photograph of a strand of DNA, dying of cancer at 37.
By unleashing a massive pulse of electromagnetic radiation sweeping over the planet, a severe solar storm could potentially knock out the electric power grid, silence radio and satellite communications and disrupt GPS navigation systems.
Perhaps its greatest moment came in 1979 when it was the first telescope to observe a gravitational lens, an effect where a "massive" object bends electromagnetic radiation such as light around it.
Countries including the U.S., U.K and Korea have ordered the evacuation of their citizens in Japan within a 80-kilometer radius of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, which has been leaking radiation since the massive earthquake on March 11.
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Fears of not only further radiation leaks, but of another massive earthquake, remain high among people in Tokyo.
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Besides, there are fears that a radiation leak from the Fukushima nuclear power plant will reach Tokyo, and warnings of another massive earthquake.
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