Old Rocks
Diamond Member
I shall now simplify, but do so accurately and fairly.
The stuff getting released into our ecosystem (some of which is indeed going outside the local area of the meltdown) is injurious to our health. Not "might be" dangerous. This isn't a 1970's cigarette box warning label we're talking about. "It IS injurious."
The risk from each of the various radioactive elements being emitted varies over time and by amount. SOME of it will effectively present little long term risk and will, thankfully, only be found within a few dozen kilometers of the site. Other stuff is so potent that it will present a larger risk for a long time. And SOME of the stuff is being spread far outside of the local area of the meltdown.
I'm not sure what the argument is. It is a bad situation and the end of this major problem is not yet clearly foreseeable. Things have a distinct prospect of getting worse, in fact, before they get better.
The stuff being released into our ecosystem CAME from the ecosystem. It has been refined yes, but it is a naturally occuring substance.....yes even Plutonium is found in nature.
I have a couple of radiation detectors on my property and they are not picking up anything more than background radiation. Nor will they. The amounts being detected here are so small that my detectors are completely incapable of reading them...the amount is that small. The DRI is so far the only research lab that has been able to detect them here in this area.
Yes it is a bad situation for the Japanese but that's all. It will not effect you.
Damn, how did I miss this bit of idiocy? Lordy, lordy, since botulism is natural, and only found in small amounts it cannot hurt you. That is essentially what you are stating, ol' Walleyes. Lordy, lordy.