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[pigshitpoet]

Japan at Nature's Edge: The Nuclear Context of an Unclear Power

You know that smell in the air, where everyone says, "Whodunnit?" but nobody will own up to it. Well it seems Japan is in denial about Unclear waste from Nuclear power... and now America has signs of the disease. - Peter Barakan (journalist at large)

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[donkeyjon]

The hot spots in the evac zone, even those right next to the plant in the path of the airborne radioactive material, was enough to give someone a slightly higher risk of thyroid cancer. Keep in mind that we have solid data from Chernobyl, where considerably more radiation was released to the surrounding area, and the results there, after decades, are an increase in thyroid cancer rates from 0.7 per 100,000 to 11 per 100,000. They estimate that there has been about 4000 extra cases of thyroid cancer due to Chernobyl, and 9 deaths due to it. This is because the people in the affected area are screened carefully and often to catch it early. And that was with orders of magnitude MORE radiation released.

Now, in comparison, we KNOW that at least 1500 people have died because of the evacuation for Fukushima. So, we killed 1500 people to prevent something like 10 deaths from cancer 15 years later. That's a problem.

The issue is that people don't understand radiation. They fear it and take extreme action when doing so is worse than the alternative.

[pigshitpoet]

you seem like you follow science closely. i admire that. poets rarely pay attention to fact. sorry, that's my achilles heel..

anyway, have you seen a documentary outlining how humans face extreme condition to survive in desolate and toxic environments, for instance there were a group of people who mined sulphur from toxic pools wearing nothing by cloth scarves over their face to block the fumes. some of them died from it, but they still keep doing it because that's the default environment..

amazing

[yes_justice]

People don't understand radiation, `tis true. We can measure very tiny amounts of it, and we hate dying of cancer. You also are projecting numbers from a limited perception, but hey, no other choice, but they are likely to be flawed numbers.

Another issue is that people don't understand C02 and how it behaves with light.

Anyway, clean your room if you want my support.

[pigshitpoet]

yes cleaning our room is the first step to environmental change..

i love it!

i cleaned my room..

; )

[yes_justice]

Did you clean up the radioactive boars?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/world/asia/radioactive-boars-in-fukushima-thwart-residents-plans-to-return-home.html

[pigshitpoet]

not the boars but my sock were pretty smelly

radioactive boars. it makes my heart sink to think we caused the creatures of nature to suffer from this, as a species we seem pretty egocentric.

imagine being a duck migrating and landing in an oil spill in the gulf of mexico, plastered in muck.

saved by caring humans from other stupid humans