On Sun, 07 Jun 2015 11:28:01 -0500, Ignoramus25277
wrote:


This completely untrue. Even near Chernobyl, where a giant reactor
exploded, the nature is flourishing.

After 30 yrs..and the areas are STILL hot.

Given that many half-lives are measured in hundreds and thousands of
years, yeah, that's PFTC. Flora and Fauna come back quickly, but some
of the area is still so hot, a single bite of food grown in that
ground will kill you within days.

Then why Flora and Fauna are there? It does not make sense.

Iggy...you dont know much about radiation and its effects do you?

It has different effects on different organisims. Plants may or may
not mutate, critters may or may not mutate...

Generally if the mutations are extreme..the young are born so deformed
they dont live past a few hours/days, Flora being on a different part
of the food chain...do the same.

The studies that have been done as a result of Chernoblyle have shown
some interesting results. Depending on the dose, dose/time and types
of radiation sources..."we" can live through far more exposure than
was originally thought. The LD50 comes with a bunch of caviats.

But they didn't get the killoff of
people they thought would happen from cancers over the years, either.
Most of the people died from initial cleanup, and the gov't knew they
would but didn't tell them. A large percentage of those people
probably would have gone in anyway, though. Good, patriotic men, like
our firefighters, who willingly give their lives for the safety of
others. I salute them.

Chernobyl was a monumental event, an enormous reactor exploding. And
even then, human losses were quite limited.

Human losses..oh...immediate deaths within 2 yrs..less than 100 IRRC.
Long term deaths...20k-60k so far.

A terrorist dirty bomb would be a small device. See the difference?

Chernobyl and terrorist dirty bomb compare like a barrel full of ****,
versus a single juicy fart.

Depends on the composition and the delivery system. But
pyschologically...it will certainly leave its mark on the people of th
e target area. Its a terror weapon, nothing more, nothing less.

Invisible, colorless, tasteless, smellless...it grows with the
telling. Which is why I keep a set of geiger counters on standby and
have for 30 yrs

Gunner


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