The reasons I object to burning debris in our city;
Health problem.
Very expensive transportation charge.
Rumour damage; one school excursion was cancelled, for example..
People will stop buying fish and agricultural produce from here.
No one can stop rumour damage.
Kokura might get 4 billion yen from government, but we taxpayer have to pay 40 billion instead in compensation for more severe damage caused from this silly behaviour.
Agree on your feelings here.
ReplyDeleteYou forget that the government can eliminate labelling of fish and produce so nobody knows where it comes from. If it tests OK, rumors can't do anything without a label.
ReplyDeleteWhen people are getting paranoid about levels of cesium that emit far less radiation than the natural potassium-40 in the same food, they need to be kicked in the seat of the pants and told "LEARN TO THINK STRAIGHT!" If they can't or won't, there are anti-anxiety drugs.
Potassium 40 has been existing before humans appear on earth. The amount of potassium 40 neither decrease nor increase in human body. We totally get accustomed to it.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hands, radioactive caesium and strontium affect badly in human brain, heart. Because they are totally new to us, we take them in place of calcium.
Difference is clear.
His final decision is still ahead.
ReplyDeleteSo has carbon-14. C-14 isn't just in the body, it is incorporated into DNA. Beta decay of C-14 breaks DNA chains, as the resulting nitrogen-14 atom recoils hard enough to rupture any chemical bond. Sr-90 and Cs-137 can't get close to that.
ReplyDeleteWe're still here anyway.
If low-level radiation had the effects you're claiming, people who sit next to granite (which is naturally radioactive and emits both gamma rays and radon) would experience the same thing. We're not seeing it. Chemical agents do cause the sort of things you're worried about, as does chronic stress. Those are the places to look.
Chemicals are also hard to measure (requiring tests like gas chromatography), while measuring radiation is easy. This probably leads people to look where they can see, like the joke about the drunk looking for his car keys under the lamp post because the light was better there.
Apropos of this:
ReplyDeleteExaggerated myths about nuclear accidents CAUSE negative health effects.
Those who have ATM gene, 0.5% - 1% of all population, are vulnerable to radiation.
ReplyDeleteWe're still here anyway, but not all of us.
I can read 'nuclear accident is the cause of negative health effects'.
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