radiation

[low_delta]

Nuclear weapons are bad. Very bad. I don't say this in the sense that all weapons are bad. We know weapons are designed to kill people, but nuclear weapons are worse than that.

Conventional weapons kill people. They injure and maim people. Nuclear weapons have other effects that do far worse. The radiation hangs around. Radiation has long-term effects. It's one thing to suffer a missing limb or two, but quite another to get cancer. Or have your kids get cancer. Or your children have birth defects. Or having no chance to rebuild after the war, because your land will be a barren wasteland for the next several thousand years.

Using nuclear weapons is wrong. Evil. (Have I ever used that word before?)

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0510-04.htm

Maybe they'll make them small enough to leave no radiation behind?

I wonder if some government sponsors are working on some sort of environmental radiation cleanup technique?

Comments

[invisibella.livejournal.com]

I agree, nuclear weapons are very bad.

The amount of damage will depend on the radioactive isotope they use. There are tons folks discussing this in the radiation safety community. New courses are coming out each day to address this (one I'll be taking before the end of the year).

If you are interested in some of this, when I get home, I can get you links of some of the discussion boards I follow.....

[lonita.livejournal.com]

I know people who are working on methods of disposal of nuclear waste with the European Atomic Energy Commission. So, someone's thinkig about it.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Nuclear waste from power plants is bad enough, but having an active nuclear weapons program is even worse.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

There are radioactive isotopes every where, huh?

Thanks for offering, but you don't have to send me the info. I probably wouldn't have time to read any of it.

[vlinker.livejournal.com]

indeed so!........ there's bad ju-ju in lotsa places......

just type in a zip code.......and take a peek

http://www.epa.gov/epahome/commsearch.htm

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Interesting stuff, but no real surprises there. I wish the map was a little more helpful. It looks like the old bakery down the street was a hazardous waste emitter. And the foundry doesn't seem to be listed. I wonder what its address is.

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[vlinker.livejournal.com]

click on the facility name, and you can get all the epa's files up to about 2000....

[banana.livejournal.com]

After the Chernobyl disaster, there were Welsh hill farmers who weren't allowed to sell meat or milk from their farms for years afterwards. They're about 2,000 miles from the reactor.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Just in Wales? Why is that?

[banana.livejournal.com]

Don't know. I'd ask google if I had more time...