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Subject: Stupid Analogies (was effects of pollution)
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Date: Fri, 22-Aug-86 19:17:48 EDT
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> Xref: oliveb net.physics:3369 net.sci:1598
>> >> The effects
>> >> of a nuclear accident, either reactor failure or waste spill is
>> >> localized. It is very bad for those close to it, but has almost no
>> >> effect on those farther away...
>> >> Joel Swank
>> 
>> >This is ridiculous.  Tell the northern Italians and the Welsh that waste
>> >from Chernobyl was localized!!
>> >-Mark
>> 
>> In Kiev, let alone the West Europe, the dose received in the 
>> first four days was about 300 millirems, or roughly the dose 
>> recieved by citizens daring to live in Colorado for a year....
>> The dose received by West Germans was estimated at 
>> about 25 millirems.
>> Michael V. Stein
> 
...examples of food being dumped, other fallout problems...
> 
> -Mark Garrett

It pisses me off to see people use high-altitude Xray/Gamma ray
dose levels in cities to justify environmental contamination by
nuclear reactor/processing plants!

We're talking about radioactive iodine, and other isotopes, that
get concentrated in milk, meat, and plantlife.  The same process
that concentrates it milk and meat also concentrates it in various
parts of the human body.

When long-decay radioactive isotopes become part of the food chain,
the long term effects result in increased cancer rates and other
life-threatenning (and usually terminal) diseases.  It takes years
for these isotopes to filter-out of the food chain (and into the graveyards).
These issues are not the same as the "equal to one chest x-ray per year"
crap that is dished-out when nuclear accidents happen...