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>> reporter: to critics the official response is often too little and too late. beyond the mistrust is often misinformation. dan pulanski specializes in wep bes of mass destruction and knows about radiation. he says science and fact get lost in panic, radio phobia. >> people hear that word radiation and immediately think of the worst case scenario, that they're going to -- >> reporter: we're going to die. >> we're all going to turn to toxic avenger and start mutating. >> reporter: fact, fukushima is no chernobyl. not yet, anyway. in the soviet reactor, workers died within weeks. in the final phase of that disaster, radiation hit levels of 6,000 millisieverts an hour. in the daiichi peak has been 400 millisieverts an hour and that's at the red-hot center of the plant itself. nuclear industry figures show you need more than double that before you get radiation sickness. even for the heroic workers, prolonged exposure, says dan, could make them sick. but not kill. >> sounds scary, 400.

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