Friday, March 18, 2011

Why are people so afraid of nuclear radiation?

 No one wants to end up looking like the hot dog that you put into the microwave for to long. You know the one. Exploded on one or both ends, dry and dark and crispy. The one you would throw away if you weren't so drunk and hungry. The dogs looking at you like "wow and I thought my food was bad".

Fortunately for us we are not hotdogs and we're not getting nuked anytime soon. But, you can't tell that to the many thousands of people who are scared to death that Japan's nuclear problem is going to COME GET US. The fact is that it's not going to come get us. We are around radiation every single day. And many area's of the world have enough natural radiation that a nuclear plant could not even be built there because the natural radiation is already higher than that which would be acceptable around a nuclear plant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background_radiation This wikipedia article has quite a bit of information.

Still all these people are out buying there anti-nuke pills and many of those people are probably taking them too. Not that I'm saying it's a bad idea to be prepared but you have to honestly look at the dangers present and react accordingly. The US is saying that it would like people to stay 50 miles from the plant for safety reasons. I don't have the exact numbers but I'm pretty sure our west coast is ummmmm atleast 50 miles away. Or maybe 5478 miles. We're not going to get anything that can cook a hotdog here in the United States. my advice is to calm down and put your wieners in the microwave.

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