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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.
In Soviet Russian, radiation...wait.
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Apparently this is just an attempt by a Utah company to increase holiday sales. Sigh.
The world's only surviving livewriter.
courtesy of Burns' Atomic Power! "We light you up!" is our motto!
Smithers, pay the good Scientists for their efforts!
and the offspring of the survivors just happend to be looking a little bit funky....
But this is slashdot so i'll never rtfa.
Liberty.
I've just exposed myself to 15000 REMS of radiation. It looks like these guys were right. I just feel a bit warm an
Don't mind the extra X. Alex
Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense. Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year. They ought to have them, too.
will come in ...handy!
Sounds exactly like the global warming theory... wipe away the data that questions the theory, discredit scientists who bring up the data, and claim your Nobel prize!
I am also bold since I was around 25.
Just thinking out-loud here: Have you tried </b>?
It's only mostly deadly... mostly deadly means partially harmless!
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It couldn't have possibly been due to eating only one potato a week for years, working 20 hours a day on a collective farm, drinking wine made from radiator fluid and vodka made from brake fluid. So it must have been the radiation.
No weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men.-Ronald Reagan
He's right. It happened to my father when he was a boy.
I am SO telling the truth.
What?!
blah blah blah
"Those people didn't die from radiation! They died of exposure when their skin fell off!"
or else!
Unless you mind that third tentacle growing out of your abdomen.
Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck
That makes the rate at which I kill off brain cells with booze and weed seem pretty tame by comparison.... I'd say this calls for a celebration! Care to join me in a belt of scotch?
Imagine being able to [...] open your [...] zipper [...] without repositioning the hands away from the home row keys.
There. Fixed that for you.
Anything that's going to be seriously radioactive for 30,000 years is going to be an alpha emitter. Whose highly dangerous particles need massive shielding between you and the source, like that provided by, say, a piece of paper.
Yeah, but haven't you heard - paper is obsolete. It's all been replaced by computer displays (and "electronic paper"). If the alpha particles start whamming into those, before long you have lots of dead pixels. And we can't have that, now can we?
If we have to re-establish paper plants (which are highly polluting), it'll be a huge expense. And think of the trees!
Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.
You can't take the sky from me...