Your “story” about the deluded woman is irrelevantAn example of Fukushima-related psychosomatic radiation sickness is very relevant. It demonstrates irrational human behavior and the ignorance-driven, conspiracy mindset ("Things are much worse than they're telling us!")
Radiation scares us, with good reason. We can't see or feel it, but we know it can make us sick, give us cancer, and even kill us outright. Since that is all most people know about it, upon learning that they may have been exposed to any higher than normal levels of radiation, however low, it is not uncommon for them to begin to manifest symptoms. (See a discussion of the psychological aspects of such an incident here). As stories and rumors of radiation sickness spread, more attribute any symptoms to radiation to which they must have been unknowingly exposed.
Sailors are lying or nukes are too smart for that...”
You seem to be letting some kind of personal issue you have with Navy nukes affect your reasoning ability, so I'll clarify my point. Radiation ionizes indiscriminately, affecting nuke and non-nuke sailors equally. If sailors were exposed to doses sufficient to produce acute radiation sickness, nukes would have been similarly affected. If however, the alleged "radiation poisoning" was caused by "4500 people freaking out" (to quote the Radiation Officer), it makes sense that the nukes would know better than to worry about radiation sickness from a few mrem (or a few thousand, for that matter).
Can you explain why the nukes were not affected? Did they dodge the zoomies? Are they immune? Or are they part of the conspiracy (sworn to secrecy--even to death?) /sarc
For some reason, nuke pimps always portray the public as raving hypocondriacs and remain astonishingly unaware of the medical history of those who lived with the result of Chernobyl. It’s strange - people are actively dying of radiation related illnesses to this day but nuclear apologists still insist that illness results from fear, not exposure.
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Radiation scares us, with good reason. We can’t see or feel it, but we know it can make us sick, give us cancer, and even kill us outright.
Yes but it’s more than that. Those entrusted to manage nuclear power plants and their supporters in the government established a disasterous history of lying to the public. The Soviets “didn’t want people to panic” so they told the public that everything was just fine after Chernobyl blew up. They encouraged the public to hold the scheduled fair in the shadow of the smoldering smoke stacks and there were celebratory parades in the dense fallout. Then the Soviets did the math and realized that if the public remained in the town they would all be dead in approximately 1 - 2 weeks. That’s the only thing that broke the Soviet’s willingness to admit anything was wrong - the entire population would die in a week or two. Now what to do? They told the public that as a precaution they would bus them out of town for a few days (or weeks) and discouraged them from packing or bringing anything with them because they’d be back soon. So the public was not told they could never return until they reached their destination. Oh and they pioneered the use of the false claim that fear of radiation is more harmful than radiation. For the first 3 years following Chernobyl, the Soviets made it illegal for physicians to report deaths as having occurred as a result of exposure to radiation. People who were there visiting first responders later realized that the doctors themselves were dropping like flies (dying) around them because they were treating highly irradiated people in the ER’s without any protective geer themselves. The public had been trained in advance that nuclear power plants could not fail and the Soviets later admitted they never trained the public to respond in an emergency because they “didn’t want people to worry.”
Yes I know that this is Soviet data but it is the template upon which the nuclear power industry bases it’s false assurances (nuclear power plants can’t fail) and refusal to notify the public in an event (nothing to see her, move along) and it’s flat out denial of illnesses and environmental damage related to radiation. I’m no longer surprised that, despite knowing that 3 reactors failed an containment domes blew up, the government of Japan directed mayors of the surrounding prefectures NOT to release their emergency potassium iodide to the public. Only one mayor defied this order and distributed it to the children in his town. It goes on and on. Those entrusted with nuclear assets are lying sociopaths in the habit of blaming the public for over reacting.
I find it bizarre that the nuclear industry comfortably ignores 100% of it’s responsibility for disasters and resulting illnesses and places ALL the blame on people for being distrustful. People who’ve been lied to repeatedly are distrustful? NO! Say it isn’t so!