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Any thoughts on this?
- Val
Without doing any research, my first reaction is that this is a biased and over-senesationalized article by an anti-nuclear author. Has me curious enough to look further though......
Thanks for passing that along Val.
Walter
Nuclear sounds scary, radiation sounds scary, and big numbers sound scary. Mix the three and you have people freak out over inconsequential things just because they don't understand those things.
Ok it's elevated on the West coast.
But why is only elevated in Florida,
Illinois, and South Dakota?
I'm also wondering why this took so
long? I would have expected this
to hit long ago.
This is scary to think about.
Hi Val :-)
Many resent suddenly reading an article such as this. (They see only what is in their daily paper, or perhaps see nothing other than a Cell Phone screen all day long.) Many also dislike this particular 1 minute video I made of what is going on around the clock out here as well as all over the world. And yet, all the while many simply cannot figure-out why all kinds of life-forms are suddenly dying off. (Thousands upon thousands of trees and way too many bees out here as well as sudden strange ailments for many people.) In short: to couple any amount/dose of radiation along with alot of heavy air pollution would (I assume at least) be a most deadly mixture. But then again, perhaps I am missing something here?
Some "think" that this will counter Global Warming, but if so, look at the toll it will take to do so which would be impossible anyway.
Justin~
If it turns us all into werewolves, I'm for it!
Bill
Werewolves are badass!
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Based on the INVERSE SQUARE LAW, radiation would be 1/4 as much at 200 kilometers from the source as it is at 100 kilometers. We are 8000 kilometers from Japan. At 8000 kilometers, it is 1/6400 as intense. Also a lot of those isotopes have short half lives which means virtually none of it reaches the west coast.
Strange deaths of animals along the west coast could easily be due to pollution.
Scott
*rolleyes*
I'm staying with my "natural" radiation exposure in San Francisco...I drink the city water, which has elevated levels of Radon, due to its being sourced in granite mountains rather than rain over alluvium.