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Fukushima

• hedora 4y ago
  It certainly contributed, in that it led to premature shutdowns of other nuclear plants.
• hammock 4y ago
  You are being downvoted, but radiation from the Fukushima disaster has been detected in nearly all salmon samples from Western Canada: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30844901/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30844901/ According to the study, it's not enough to impact human health, but there is no comment on how it may impact the health of the salmon themselves.
  • bpodgursky 4y ago
    > The average ingested radiation dose per kilogram of salmon from Po is estimated to be 0.88 μSv, and the average dose from Cs is estimated to be 0.0026 μSv. The annual dose from ingested salmon would be only a fraction of the worldwide average annual effective dose from exposure to natural background radiation (2,400 μSv y) Come on. Science is very good at detecting things. We can now detect light from galaxies a billion light years away. Don't use that awesome improved science as a cudgel for stupid policy.
    • MichaelCollins 4y ago
      It's simultaneously a blessing and a curse that absolutely minuscule quantities of radioactive isotopes are so easy to detect. More blessing than curse I think, but our ability to sense such inconsequential levels of radiation (combined with poor public education) is responsible for a lot of hysteria.