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News & ArtsWednesday, August 24, 2011
Panic / Enviro Japan's New Normal
Posted by Goldy on Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 8:19 AM
Meanwhile in Fukushima, a half-year post-meltdown, the Japanese government announced that it is tightening radiation exposure limits for children at the prefecture's schools, from 20 millisieverts per year down to one.
It says it will not require schools to keep children indoors even if radiation levels exceed the new limits, but recommends that they be promptly decontaminated if they go outside.
You know, the usual elementary school routine: lunch, recess, prompt radioactive decontamination, and then maybe a nap for the younger kids.
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Christ, Goldy. It hurts me to do this. I'm sure you're a bright guy, and I really don't want to say anything against you, but...
1mSv is the equivalent of 0.1Rem a year. It would take 200Rem in one sitting to have noticeable effects. That's 2000x this limit. Making a stringent rule pointlessly more stringent isn't helping anything.
I really don't feel like you've been "fearmongering" as you've been accused of, but waving things like "OMG radioactive decontamination!" (better known as a shower) in people's faces is the same kind of reactionary shit that makes news worthless to read anymore.
1mSv is the equivalent of 0.1Rem a year. It would take 200Rem in one sitting to have noticeable effects. That's 2000x this limit. Making a stringent rule pointlessly more stringent isn't helping anything.
I really don't feel like you've been "fearmongering" as you've been accused of, but waving things like "OMG radioactive decontamination!" (better known as a shower) in people's faces is the same kind of reactionary shit that makes news worthless to read anymore.
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@1: Fantastic logic, there. That's like saying that you would need to smoke an ENTIRE PACK of cigarettes in one sitting to have any noticeable negative health effects. That's 20x just smoking one cigarette at a time. Therefore, smoking just one cigarette at a time should be totally fine over a lifetime.
Particularly if you consider that contaminated materials are ingested and incorporated into the body and concentrated in local areas (the heart muscle, thyroid, etc).
It's certainly a good thing Japan is a sparsely populated land mass with plenty of uncontaminated empty space for tens of thousands of people to move to...
Particularly if you consider that contaminated materials are ingested and incorporated into the body and concentrated in local areas (the heart muscle, thyroid, etc).
It's certainly a good thing Japan is a sparsely populated land mass with plenty of uncontaminated empty space for tens of thousands of people to move to...
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