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I also wonder about exposure in youth to nuclear weapons testing fallout. That might show an identifiable spatial or temporal pattern, maybe falling off in mor
by Jill_the_Pill 4y ago
I also wonder about exposure in youth to nuclear weapons testing fallout. That might show an identifiable spatial or temporal pattern, maybe falling off in more recent years and clustered among downwinders worldwide.
- kaba0 4y agoI don’t know, radiation is very easy to measure, has a very well-understood effect (the previous century was pretty much about getting to learn every interaction of radiation and the human body), and I don’t think that those fallouts even measurably increase radiation level compared to the usual background one. In short, radiation either has an immediate, very apparent and deadly effect, or a simple stochastic one that basically linearly increases with radiation exposure.
- ectopod 4y agoIt's not the environmental radiation that's the problem, it's ingested isotopes. See e.g. strontium and leukaemia.