“Sorry, that is just hyperbole. To see how absurd your assertion is, check the dead stats for the workers at Chernobyl.”
It is NOT hyperbole. The fact that it is so deadly if you are directly exposed to it is because of the fact it is breaking down at such a high speed. But the fact is you’re already exposed to “dangerous” radiation in the environment 24/7:
“But before we shed too many tears for the poor fellow who was struck by one of these particles of radiation, it should be pointed out that every person in the world is struck by about 15,000 of these particles of radiation every second of his or her life,2 and this is true for every person who has ever lived and for every person who ever will live. These particles, totalling 500 billion per year, or 40 trillion in a lifetime, are from natural sources. In addition, our technology has introduced new sources of radiation like medical X-rays — a typical X-ray bombards us with over a trillion particles of radiation.
http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~blc/book/chapter5.html
Your body can handle a certain level of radiation exposure everyday before getting sick. As long as you remain below it, you’re fine, though there are bad side-effects for the future, well, the same side-effects you can expect at any time.
FYI, lots of survivors of the A-BOMB attack in Japan, and you would expect them to all be dead and the place uninhabitable. I think they have a monument built right on the crater now.
The No-Nukes crowd really pulled a number on a lot of people.
Chernobyl