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To: ransomnote

You and everyone else is surrounded by lots of radioactive atoms of all types.....diluted to very small concentrations. Adding the very tiny amou ts of materials transferred by bizarre and minimal forces such as bird excrement might increase concentrations from say .000001Bq per unit measure to .000002Bq. An increase yes but a one that is essentially irrelevant.
You will recieve more dose in the form of cosmic radiation from a cross country flight than from contaminated bird droppings etc.


25 posted on 01/11/2014 3:42:11 PM PST by nvscanman
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To: nvscanman

Did you forget to mention bananas? That’s always popular with those who assume the rest of us have no access to real information.

The “isotopes are natural” argument makes me wonder why the nuke industry insisted for years that they had established containment that simply could not fail, impossible...besides...the domes were designed to resist aircraft hitting them etc.

But then Fukushima quaked, pipes burst, tsunami hit, domes exploded and going forward, containment is lost on 3 reactor cords - they are “somehwere” under the buildings and, if the testing on the local wells is correct, are heavily contaminated and now have sky rocketing Strontium levels and all that ground water flows to the ocean - hundres of tons daily of “coolant” that doesn’t even reach the molten core - all of it washing into the ocean and SUDDENLY the nuke industry wants us all to understand that it never would have mattered if 3 cores melt down because we are surrounded by isotopes diluted. You are equating three molten cores and the changing environmental conditions resulting with 3 failed nuclear reactors pouring radioactive waste into the air and water daily without interruption for the foreseeable future.

You have no idea, obviously, what kind of dose I will resceive as a result of the incompetence of the nuclear power industry but I see that you say I will “receive more dose in the form of cosmic radiation from a cross country flight than from contaminated bird droppings”

Sadly, you seem to have no idea that your statement is a) unsubstantiated by evidence and b) an apples to oranges comparison (study up on the difference between the deposition of isotopes and cosmic rays) and c) offensive because cosmic rays are naturally occurring and the incompetence and lies of the nuclear power industry, while occurring frequently, are not on par with natural unavoidable sources of radiation exposure. Bad decision making and greed resulting in 3 core melt downs and you compare that with cosmic rays.,.... disgusting.


33 posted on 01/11/2014 3:56:36 PM PST by ransomnote
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