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it's not the irradiation that people are worried about. It's the pollution, in the litteral sense. In the case of a fire (to take an all but too common example)
by ArnoVW 4y ago
it's not the irradiation that people are worried about. It's the pollution, in the litteral sense. In the case of a fire (to take an all but too common example), all the radioactive material is distributed as tiny particles that get into the air we breathe and the water we drink.
So no, they do not take turns. The live 1000 km away, and just buy a fish that swam 100 km away from the fire.
- RC_ITR 4y agoI suggest you do your research about fallout. It decays about 1 order of magnitude for every 7^n of time. That’s the idea behind fallout shelters, you wait until the fallout is no longer dangerous. The atmosphere is a very harsh place for radioactive particles. We’ve gleaned this from real world testing. Please don’t be afraid of made up things. Be afraid of real things like climate change.
- coldtea 4y agoSimilar non-chalance and assurances about previous technologies is how climate change came about..
- RC_ITR 4y agoNo, we’ve known about the greenhouse effect for well over a century. It’s not non-chalance, it’s indifference. EDIT: the cause of the indifference is in part because it’s harder to get scared about! Our brains aren’t perfect risk estimators, especially when it comes to radiation and atmospheric dilution.