Radiation Not As Hazardous As Once Believed

HeavensBlade23 sends in an article from the German site Spiegel Online about mounting evidence that nuclear radiation may not be as deadly as has been widely believed. The article cites studies by German, US, and Japanese researchers concluding, for example, that fewer than 800 deaths are attributable to the after-effects of radiation in over 86,500 survivors of the Hiroshima bombing. Other surprisingly low death rates are reported in studies of Chernobyl and of a secret Siberian town called Mayak, devoted to producing plutonium, that was abandoned after a nuclear accident in 1957.

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Re:astroturfing at its worst

[BigBur]

"I don't care how nice their atomic toasters are, they can't just make up science. That's the President's job." Wow... I guess this is a good thing though. Without fear of radiation poisoning from reckless bombing, the U.S. would have been taken over a long time ago. It's only logical, of course.