Do You Know How much the Nuclear Industry Dosed YOU???

[Liberation Angel]

http://www.cancer.gov/cancer_information/doc.aspx?viewid=4ea8b4a2-b6d8-44b3-8e2f-7ce624a130d2

You can find out here if you were dosed and if you are in your late forties or older you can even calculate how much these bastards exposed you to here in the good ol' USA.

BTW --- NO NUKES

Tell Obama NO NEW NUKES!!!

Love and Peace all.

[hobbit709]

1. I probably got much higher dosages from

1. Being downwind from a coal power plant.
2. Overexposure to that giant nuclear reactor in the sky.

[Liberation Angel]

2. No you didn't. Man made radiation is far more toxic especially when you eat it

Coal pl;ants and the sun do NOT make radioactive iodine

[hobbit709]

6. Keep on telling yourself that

There's plenty of other radioactive isotopes out there and all you have to do is breathe the air to suck in a lungful.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

8. You get more radiation every time you go out in sunlight.

[Liberation Angel]

10. false analogy and untrue

nukes produce MORE exposure to man made radiation and radiation in general than sun exposure which is mostly or mainly deflected by the atmosphere.

The man made radiation is ingested not external.

False argument

[hobbit709]

13. Radiation is radiation

Until you get far enough up the periodic table to the artificially created ones, all natural elements have various isotopes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_iodine

And while the earth's atmosphere and magnetosphere deflect much of the radiation reaching the surface, there's still enough to kill an unprotected human within 24 hours.

[csziggy]

3. Not as much as some of our neighbors who lived in concrete block houses

Made with sand that had uranium in it. Waste sand from phosphate mining had a fair amount of uranium in it. In the 60s, my dad was hired by the Atomic Energy Commission to assay if there was enough to process the sand to extract the uranium and to try to figure a way to do it. Since my dad was already re-processing tailings to extract more phosphate, and was the top independent phosphate mining engineer at the time, he was the best person to answer their question.

His work then was classified and I never found out if he did manage to find a way to extract the uranium, but in the 80s word came out that houses built of concrete blocks using tailings sand in the mix had a significantly increased level of radioactivity over the background levels - meaning a measurable increas. No one was ever able to prove that it was enough of an increase to cause health effects and since there were thousands of those houses built by hundreds of small contractors who bought their concrete blocks from many different concrete companies, there was not enough money to make a class action suit profitable.

Now there is evidence that granite countertops raise the background radiation levels in many houses. :shrug:

[SidDithers]

4. Nuclear weapons industry...

'cause that site is about fallout from nuclear weapons testing. Chernobyl is mentioned, but American nuclear power generation and Chernobly are about as alike as cats and tomatoes.

Sid

[elocs]

5. Actually, here in La Crosse, WI I grew up just miles away from a nuclear power plant

on the Mississippi by Genoa, WI on the Mississippi (now decommissioned). We have no higher rates of cancer here and the people are pretty healthy overall. I think more people here have been impacted by radon in their basements.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

7. You appear to be conflating above-ground nuclear WEAPONS testing with nuclear power plants.

Geez, at least be honest about it.

[Liberation Angel]

9. Nuclear power leaks radiation and the Nuke industry includes weapons AND power plants

Exposure comes from testing and nuke power.

See

www.radiation.org

or

www.NIRS.org


All of the sources of exposure are cumulative and are deadly.

[spoony]

11. "These bastards" are the government, not the "Nuclear Industry"

This is unreasonable conflation, LA. It's like saying the Bread Industry is evil because the CIA was dosing loaves with LSD.

[Codeine]

12. You sound like a paid shill for Big Bakery. nt