kravietzBig Nuclear’s Big Mistake - Linear No-Threshold
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Bo JacobsWow, the #BBC4 show, “Fukushima: Days that Shocked the World” really leans hard on the victim blaming #radiophobia crap.
kravietz 🦇An interesting example on how #radiophobia is being built in #Germany - the “Federal company for final storage” posted news[^1] from the Asse II salt mine with the following title:
Contaminated salt water found at the 700 meter level
On the photo you can see a tiny puddle of soaked salt rock. The news continues:
The investigations showed that the salt water is contaminated with radioactive substances. Radioactive hydrogen (tritium) and cesium-137 were measured. Measurements are 15,000 becquerels of tritium and 7 becquerels of cesium-137 per litre Becquerel is used to measure activity. One becquerel corresponds to one decay per second.
Factually, this is all true. The salt is technically “contaminated” because the isotopes don’t naturally occur in it, the measurements were done, isotopes were found, these “thousands of becquerels” look “big”. But what does that mean in practical terms?
Well, not much - becquerel (Bq) is a very small unit. An average human body produces 4400 Bq of radioactivity due to naturally radioactive isotopes we all contain and ingest with food (tomatoes and bananas are their richest sources). A home smoke detector with americum isotope produces 37’000 Bq. Few people do realise that, so any mention of “radioactivity” is causing panic, when the reality is that humans had been literally bathing in radiation from rock and from the sapce for millions of years of evolution and it’s only the absorbed dose that matters from health perspective.
All the report means is that some German miners in 1990’s were likely sloppy with using slightly contaminated water to moist the filler salt (as explained in the article as a working hypothesis). It’s a curiosity but it has literally zero value for anyone living on surface 700 m higher.
But it’s being spinned as some kind of huge news on social media only because it contains the magic key word “radiation” which guarantees panic and engagements, while nobody really realises that Germany already has not one but two massive deep geologic repositories that store thousands of tons of highly toxic chemical waste - arsenic, mercury, cyanides etc.[^3] And that’s perfectly OK, just as the #nuclear storage, because geology guarantees these will stay below the ground for billions of years.
[^2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background_radiation#Natural_background_radiation
[^3]: https://www.kpluss.com/en-us/our-business-products/waste-management/
Emil Jacobs - CollectifissionA long standing meme in the German anti-nuclear scene is how you can't eat mushrooms from German forests, as they're tainted by cesium-137, decades after the Chernobyl disaster. What are the facts?
Yes, there is a slight uptake of it in mushrooms. But you would need to eat amounts roughly similar to the amount of mushrooms an entire supermarket has, to get a dose of up to the level of normal background radiation in Germany. Or eat at least 2 kg to get the radiation exposure of a flight and return from Frankfurt/Main to New York City.
This is for the most radioactive parts of German mushrooms.
The legal level for food is at a level of if you eat only this for an entire year, then you will accumulate a dose of half the background radiation of the Ore Mountains (in German 'Erzgebirge') or Bavarian Forest (German: 'Bayerischer Wald'). Which would be an accumulated dose of 1.6 times the national average and 1/25th of the known threshold for observable radiation effects (cancer chance increase by 2 percent points compared to natural cancer risks).
In other words: German mushrooms are harmless from a radiation exposure standpoint, the regulation around it is just overly cautious.
Source below.
#Radiation #Germany #Radiophobia #Chernobyl
https://www.bfs.de/DE/themen/ion/umwelt/lebensmittel/pilze-wildbret/pilze-wildbret.html
Radioaktive Belastung von Pilzen und Wildbret
Bestimmte Pilz- und Wildarten sind in einigen Gegenden Deutschlands hauptsächlich durch die Reaktorkatastrophe von Tschornobyl (russ.: Tschernobyl) noch immer stark mit Cäsium-137 belastet. Der Süden Deutschlands – vor allem Südbayern und der Bayerische Wald, aber auch Teile Oberschwabens – sind davon besonders betroffen.
More "radiation is not bad for you" radiophobia claptrap from the guy who says Chernobyl is a garden, and Fukushima wastewater is just water:
"Was decontaminating Fukushima worth billions spent?"
As always with this shoddy work, the study only considers external gamma wave levels, while the primary risk to people in Fukushima is internalizing radioactive particles. Limit your inquiry, but globalize your conclusions.
#radiophobia #nuclear #NuclearPower #Fukushima #Chernobyl
https://asiatimes.com/2023/10/was-decontaminating-fukushima-worth-billions-spent/
AlexanderThe Mind Controller
Moscow has quite a bit of these ugly cellular towers. They appeared relatively recently and they have history.
For a long time Moscow had three cellular operators and no shortage of tall buildings and other structures for them to put their antennas in. Attics, rooftops, radio masts were divided between the Big Three. Then a fourth operator tried to enter the market. The Big Trio didn't like the idea much and they refused to share space, in fact they made sure it was hard for the unwanted competition to get any so their reception sucked. Then the fourth operator somehow struck the deal with street lighting company and got permission to install "hybrid lamposts" combining radio mast and street lights. https://friends.deko.cloud/display/d0446be5-915e-6660-724b-317134152755