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The Hot Zone: During a drive down an Okuma street, a Safecast radiation detector registered 16 microsieverts per hour. That means a resident living there year-round would receive an annual dose of 140 millisieverts, which is seven times more than the government’s safety threshold.
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Eliza Strickland
Eliza Strickland is a senior editor at IEEE Spectrum, where she covers AI, biomedical engineering, and other topics. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.
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