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And on the USS George Washington:
You know, that is how they wash the deck, a pretty common task on a working flight deck on an air craft carrier. This is just the best way to get the many many many oil stains off of the flight deck.
Posted on 12/24/2013 10:47:29 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
I have to say there was remarkably little chatter and certainly no panic around here (Hanford) for everyone getting dusted with easily measured “hot particles”. I’m skeptical about the “ten hot particles in an average lung in Seattle” part.
Just because some stuff goes over in the jetstream doesn’t mean a lot of it has to dump on any one particular spot on the ground. It has never been a problem in the past to detect precipitated radioactive particles and I don’t know why it should be now.
And on the USS George Washington:
You know, that is how they wash the deck, a pretty common task on a working flight deck on an air craft carrier. This is just the best way to get the many many many oil stains off of the flight deck.
I’m sorry, this is compete horse $#it. This stuff has been well studied. Lymphoma and leukemia induction after radiation exposure requires about five years to develop, while solid tumors do not occur until 10-20 years after exposure. And the doses required to see a measurable increase over the normal “background” incidence of cancer are staggeringly large. There is no way that they could escape notice on a nuclear warship.
There is no possible way that 70 cancers were caused by exposure in the past year. No way at all. None. None. None! And some of the things they are calling “radiation sickness” are laughable. Arthritis? Migraines? Insomnia? I say BULLS#¡T.
Either the reporters are lying/exaggerating, or people are getting greedy for the lawsuit lottery, or the Navy has a lot of hypochondriacs.
Why would they make it up?
Or people capable of tracking wind?
Yes pretty hard to believe!
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