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The radiation is going into the Pacific and not the air, maybe that's preferable.
by 2AF3 10y ago
The radiation is going into the Pacific and not the air, maybe that's preferable.
- vidarh 10y agoIt's much preferable to the extent it gets diluted. The problem in Europe after Chernobyl was not that we were radiated to any appreciable extent, but the spread of cesium and iodine dust that got into the soil. Even then the reason it had much effect at all is that things like mushrooms and certain plants will take it up and concentrate it, and become food for animals that end up in our foodchain (e.g. sheep and reindeer in Norway tend to roam freely and graze on public land). The risk from this is/was quite limited, but it is quite limited because it is managed by monitoring radiation levels of meat from affected areas.