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Chance of cancer and/or sterility isn't the limit of the problem. Acute radiation sickness would put a damper on their enthusiasm real quick. Until you have th
by nknighthb 13y ago
Chance of cancer and/or sterility isn't the limit of the problem. Acute radiation sickness would put a damper on their enthusiasm real quick.
Until you have this jumbled mess of radioactive debris thoroughly mapped, you don't want to send anyone in there, and once you do, there are going to be a lot of places they just can't go. Cleanup workers lying on the ground vomiting their guts out aren't helping anyone.
- jrockway 13y agoI also don't think that the situation is grave enough to sacrifice human health, yet. Certainly, if one person could sacrifice themselves to save 100,000,000 from certain doom, then it's an easy calculation. (Not me or my family, though, please.) The current situation is more like "this is expensive to keep cool". No need to kill anyone else.
- tsotha 13y ago>I also don't think that the situation is grave enough to sacrifice human health, yet. Yet? The odds it ever will be are infinitesimal.