I think the danger of radiation is vastly exaggerated. Especially compared with stuff like tens of thousands of gallons of flaming vinyl chloride. I'd be much more willing to work in a uranium mine than follow the advice of the average doctor these days. Diversity hires are a danger to all of society no matter where they work. Getting killed from a plane crash, inadequate railroad safety, a nuclear plant melting down, or having a windmill fall on me is all going to end up with dead people from willful incompetence. At least when a nuclear plant melts down and the molten core burns its way to the center of the earth we might see something cool before our inevitable painful death.
I also believe that if this group of (((communists))) are going to steal everything me or my ancestors ever worked for and destroy any possible future for me an my family then it's perfectly okay to salt the earth so the only thing they will conquer is a barren wasteland.
I think the danger of radiation is vastly exaggerated
Radiation isn't the problem. Unless you have an exposure that is significantly high and for a prolonged time, radiation isn't a big threat. What is a big threat is radionuclides, radioactive particulate matter. if radionuclides enter the body tissues, they irradiate the local area and cause much more harm because they are essentially trapped in your body. Your body can deal with radiation that is external but it does not deal well with internal radioactive sources, especially small particles scattered about in the body. This is what makes radioactive fallout dangerous. You should be concerned about radionuclides rather than radiation as energy emission.
I very much understand how radiation causes disease and why something like inhaling radioactive particles is worse than just standing in front of low level emissions. I still contend that the danger is vastly overstated or at least very poorly documented. Most of the evidence of disease around Chernobyl and Fukushima is very poor. I'm not saying it's benign. I'm saying compared with all the other poisons we're exposed to, it barely raises the likelihood of disease. I think if proper precautions were taken, living around either meltdown would be almost undetectable in disease probability and outcomes.
Also the fact that coal power plants exhaust radioactive material that's in the coal as a part of normal operation.
SAY THE LINE BART! SAY THE LINE!
"Radioactive waste is overrated"
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!
I'm not talking about radionuclides from a meltdown. I'm talking about waste materials contaminated with radionuclides or raw radioactive waste material that is improperly stored, handled or secured getting out into the open by accident or theft. We don't need low-IQ monkeys letting radioactive materials escape and get spread in the world or worse used in a deliberate contamination event. One need only research incidents like the Goiania Incident to see what can go wrong if the waste and radioactive source materials are not kept securely in check. You fear a Times Beach level incident (dioxin used on dirt roads to reduce dust) more than Goiania but they are equally bad incidents. We can't be blind to one hazard because we fear another one more.
The danger of radiation is underplayed by pretty much all of (((mainstream media))). Radiation invisibly destroys your DNA. No DNA, no future. You might think you're fine for years, then you find out you've got a brain tumor, you're sterile or your kids come out retarded or stillborn. No population will survive that lets it's rulers irradiate them.
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