Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Radiation Not As Hazardous As Once Believed

Posted by kdawson on from the since-my-fallout-with-you dept.

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.

2 of 570 comments (clear)

  1. Mod parent up by SoapBox17 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Seriously, why did that get modded "Troll"?

  2. Preparation is underway by Max_W · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Oh, oh. They started laying ground to nuking someone.

    I listened on the www.democracynow.org that Bush is the member of a religious group, which believes that soon there will be an Armageddon on Earth.

    That at least 2 billion people will be killed and there will be rivers of blood.

    But after that there will be the Heaven on Earth. They believe that all this is in bible. The leader of this group travels around the world with 3.6 meters high cross.

    Realistically it can be done only with nukes. Gosh! They are starting it.