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To: TexasGator

Read the BEIR posts down thread for solid data about the biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation. That’s most comprehensive. Responses to exposures vary and I think I recall that leukemia was most common in the Taiwan exposure. I think it counts as a “negative” effect if radiation exposure causes cancers (illness, suffering, surgery), leukemia and all those other illnesses. Radiation exposure also suppresses immune system function so some deaths are falsely attributed to diseases that would otherwise be survivable.
I forget sometimes that nuke apologists don’t care that radiation exposure damages quality of life and often does it for generations. Those with radiation related illnesses can battle exhausting illnesses their entire lives and then watch their offspring battle it and to nuke apologists -
that’s nothing. Absolutely nothing. In the Ukraine right now are the generations following Chernobyl and they live, ironically, half-lives filled with medical treatments or the unanswered need for treatments. What’s a baby shower like over there when you fear what genetic damage your children will face if exposure to radiation does not result in spontaneous abortion, the illnesses, the lost childhood. Shortly after Chernobyl, “most of the children in the village will too ill to play.” What it like to live like that? Nuke-o-philes don’t care. Personally, I think it’s important that radiation damage caused and is causing (Ukraine) significant dementia to people “too young” to have it - but, hey....they did’t die, right?


43 posted on 04/29/2017 6:17:25 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote

Your earlier argument about low level doses went south so now you go on a high level dose rant?


44 posted on 04/29/2017 6:20:35 PM PDT by TexasGator
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