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and 30 years later the wild hogs in germany are still radioactive thanks to all the caesium in the ground, trying to downplay the effects of these catastrophic

by tekmate 10y ago

and 30 years later the wild hogs in germany are still radioactive thanks to all the caesium in the ground, trying to downplay the effects of these catastrophic events, no matter how rare they are, isn't very helpful

htns 10y ago
They are still perfectly safe to eat. There isn't even an effect to downplay.
- tekmate 10y ago
  just because it's a rationale for people to be vocally against nuclear doesn't mean it's rational
ComputerGuru 10y ago
> and 30 years later the wild hogs in germany are still radioactive So is the 300 million year old chunk of coal being burned in a factory and that banana you ate yesterday... This is how FUD spreads. What does it even mean for something to "be radioactive?" How much "radioactive" is bad?
- Pokepokalypse 10y ago
  You're conflating ideas. Yes, Potassium and even radioactive Caesium are flushed out of the body. (whether Caesium is, is controversial). Iodine accumulates in the body (but has a short half-life). Strontium, and several other elements build-up. They bio-accumulate. So yes, you can eat a radioactive wild hog, and be safe. If you eat them for dinner once a week, you will very likely, eventually, suffer ill health effects, possibly even cancer. This is not a problem for hog hunters in Germany. It is a problem for Rice farmers in Japan. Because those guys eat a lot of rice, all day, every day. Plus, the rice is often processed into other products, and combined into other foods as starch or protein supplements, so even people who don't eat rice are getting some exposure. After Fukushima, the strategy was not to dump all the radioactive rice. They dumped everything with high levels; and then the rice with medium levels, they mixed it in with uncontaminated rice, to make the overall level low enough to be below regulatory thresholds (which they raised after Fukushima). Now, it's going to be found in your rice-chex cereal in America. Your protein-bar in France. Your chewing gum in Africa. Is any of that going to kill you? It probably raises anyone's chance of eventually getting cancer by .001%. Yes, there's no way to prove it, no way to sue anybody, or collect damages. If you survive the cancer, you're still the person who has to pay for it. If you don't get cancer, you still pay for it, because your insurance premium covers the increased risk to your pool. You - the person affected - pay for this. The people who made profit; the shareholders, don't care.

by tekmate 10y ago

htns 10y ago

They are still perfectly safe to eat. There isn't even an effect to downplay.

tekmate 10y ago
just because it's a rationale for people to be vocally against nuclear doesn't mean it's rational

ComputerGuru 10y ago

> and 30 years later the wild hogs in germany are still radioactive So is the 300 million year old chunk of coal being burned in a factory and that banana you ate yesterday... This is how FUD spreads. What does it even mean for something to "be radioactive?" How much "radioactive" is bad?

Pokepokalypse 10y ago
You're conflating ideas. Yes, Potassium and even radioactive Caesium are flushed out of the body. (whether Caesium is, is controversial). Iodine accumulates in the body (but has a short half-life). Strontium, and several other elements build-up. They bio-accumulate. So yes, you can eat a radioactive wild hog, and be safe. If you eat them for dinner once a week, you will very likely, eventually, suffer ill health effects, possibly even cancer. This is not a problem for hog hunters in Germany. It is a problem for Rice farmers in Japan. Because those guys eat a lot of rice, all day, every day. Plus, the rice is often processed into other products, and combined into other foods as starch or protein supplements, so even people who don't eat rice are getting some exposure. After Fukushima, the strategy was not to dump all the radioactive rice. They dumped everything with high levels; and then the rice with medium levels, they mixed it in with uncontaminated rice, to make the overall level low enough to be below regulatory thresholds (which they raised after Fukushima). Now, it's going to be found in your rice-chex cereal in America. Your protein-bar in France. Your chewing gum in Africa. Is any of that going to kill you? It probably raises anyone's chance of eventually getting cancer by .001%. Yes, there's no way to prove it, no way to sue anybody, or collect damages. If you survive the cancer, you're still the person who has to pay for it. If you don't get cancer, you still pay for it, because your insurance premium covers the increased risk to your pool. You - the person affected - pay for this. The people who made profit; the shareholders, don't care.