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Over EPA limit: Cesium levels in San Francisco area milk now higher than 6 months ago
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know much about radiation? don't think so... look up the half lives of ALL of the elements, not just iodine and cesium....
it has been recorded in the mass media as well, not just on conspiracy sites....
Quoting: citizenperth How cares about half-lives? Let's talk about diffusion. You think I should be worried about a little bit of cesium smoking out of a plant on the other side of the planet? The coal plants in the US emit TONS (you know, 2000 pounds per ton) of uranium and other radioactive elements into the atmosphere every year and have been doing it for decades. We haven't we all died of cancer? This crap simply isn't that harmful and the atmosphere is very VERY big, you have no idea how big it is and how much these elements get diluted. Telling me to worry about Fukushima is just retarded. We put more radioactive particles into the air locally in one day than Fukushima has put out - much less reached us. There is nothing in the natural environment that causes cancer. In ancient times before coal smoke stacks were spewing off uranium, cancer was unheard of. You're right we all haven't die of cancer, but many people have ever since the industrial age. You can't prove small amounts of radiation over a prolonged period are harmless. Of course Fukushima isn't going to kill everyone, but to suggest it will have zero impact at all on anything is absurd. There are plenty of things in the environment that cause cancer. Prolonged and excessive solar radiation, HPV and other viruses, and most importantly - living a long time. Cancer was "unheard of" just like HIV and numerous other diseases were "unheard of" - people hadn't discovered them yet. When people lived to be 30 years old they aren't going to die from cancer. Hell, untreated it will take years for cancer to kill you. Substances like uranium and plutonium are biologically inert - they pass right through you - they do not "bio-accumulate." Life evolved under radiation from every source. You have it in your bones from potassium and from carbon-14 throughout your body. There is zero evidence that low-level radiation causes cancer. In fact, the opposite is likely true since the cancer rates in the country tend to be the lowest in the areas with the highest background radiation. If you think cancer didn't exist before the industrial revolution, you know the thing that has greatly extended your lifespan and provides you with numerous comforts, then you are an idiot who has been brainwashed into being scared of his own shadow. Learn the difference between NORMs (naturally occurring radioactive materials) and man made radiation please. Quit trying to downplay something you obviously know little to nothing about. And if you think that cancer rates haven't risen exponentially since the the 1800s, then you have lost the ability to reason. Ask any renowned health care expert and they will tell you that the BIGGEST concern for the health care industry today is environmental toxicity. Oh, and by the way -- viruses are not natural.
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