We should stop running away from radiation
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Re: We should stop running away from radiation
#2People are worried about cancer from electricity, phones, microwaves, terrorists, etc. Silent/Unseen killers are the scariest kind, almost as if it's a good bogeyman.
Japanese can resolve this hysteria after seeing economic costs. However, the governments in lawsuit prone countries will go out of their way to make it very safe in almost everything. eg low speed limits, many speed bumps, background checks, etc. Otherwise the government would get sued for not doing enough, affecting the budget.
Educational Video of Japanese Nuclear Boy for kids http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sakN2hSVxA
Re: We should stop running away from radiation
#3People are worried about cancer from electricity, phones, microwaves, terrorists, etc. Silent/Unseen killers are the scariest kind, almost as if it's a good bogeyman. Japanese can resolve this hysteria after seeing economic costs. However, the governments in lawsuit prone countries will go out of their way to make it very safe in almost everything. eg low speed limits, many speed bumps, background checks, etc. Otherw…
governments control the courts; they exempt themselves from liability for things all the time. for instance: try suing the cops in the US because they didn't do enough to protect you.
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#4Everything is fine. Keep drinking the Kool aid.
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#5Good luck. The media (and people in general) are horrible when it comes to technical things and scary invisible things. Nuclear is both.
Re: We should stop running away from radiation
#6People are worried about cancer from electricity, phones, microwaves, terrorists, etc. Silent/Unseen killers are the scariest kind, almost as if it's a good bogeyman. Japanese can resolve this hysteria after seeing economic costs. However, the governments in lawsuit prone countries will go out of their way to make it very safe in almost everything. eg low speed limits, many speed bumps, background checks, etc. Otherw…
governments control the courts; they exempt themselves from liability for things all the time. for instance: try suing the cops in the US because they didn't do enough to protect you.
Wrong, this happens all the time. For example, municipalities pay out all the time to the Westboro Baptist Church when local police are unable to defend them from the people they are intentionally enraging. (This is how WBC makes their money.)
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#7Having grown up in Russia and personally being in contact with a few people affected by the Chernobyl fallout, it's a bit hard to take someone who tries to diminish the impact of that accident to this degree.
Yes, maybe the UN report showed such a small number of confirmed fatalities, but I have a sneaky suspicion that they based it mostly on data collected by the Soviet Union. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't trust any data that came from an authoritarian government, especially one run by a bunch of Russians, especially one that collapsed 20 years ago (likely destroying countless incriminating documents in the process), especially concerning a deeply embarrassing incident such as Chernobyl.
The public may be overreacting to the nuclear threat posed by the Fukushima reactors, but this seems like a subtle attempt at rewriting history.
(I wouldn't be surprised if there is a UN report 20 years from now proving that Saddam Hussein did indeed win re-election with 99% of the vote.)
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#8Good luck. The media (and people in general) are horrible when it comes to technical things and scary invisible things. Nuclear is both.
What do you mean by horrible? I think it makes sense to be concerned about anything you're subjected to that you're not sure is safe.
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Re: We should stop running away from radiation
#10Good luck. The media (and people in general) are horrible when it comes to technical things and scary invisible things. Nuclear is both.
What do you mean by horrible? I think it makes sense to be concerned about anything you're subjected to that you're not sure is safe.
Concerned? Yes. Panicked? Probably not. I think the media's presentation of the situation is more the latter.