France grossly underestimated radioactive fallout from atom bomb tests, study
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Re: France grossly underestimated radioactive fallout from atom bomb tests, study
#2What was the incentive to adequately estimate the fallout vs. underestimate it?
Re: France grossly underestimated radioactive fallout from atom bomb tests, study
#3What was the incentive to adequately estimate the fallout vs. underestimate it?
There's no real incentive to estimate accurately because it's in Algeria, which the French did not care much for.
Re: France grossly underestimated radioactive fallout from atom bomb tests, study
#4What was the incentive to adequately estimate the fallout vs. underestimate it?
If you need to use your bombs on a country that invaded you a few decades ago you want to make sure you don't accidently irradiate your own country.
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#6What was the incentive to adequately estimate the fallout vs. underestimate it?
Back in those days whatever the answer was the decision would he the same e.g. the people in charge of windscale probably knew it wasn't safe but if you don't have a bomb you are a complete nobody.
Re: France grossly underestimated radioactive fallout from atom bomb tests, study
#7 Do you know what makes the ocean glow
Do you know what makes the ocean glow
When unwelcome guests, are making nuclear tests
Are making nuclear tests, are making nuclear tests
Are making nuclear tests
...
Let me be more specific, get out of the pacific
Ki te la pacific, get out of the pacific
Ki te la pacific
It's long past the time for the French to GTFO out of the Pacific. Decolonise and free the Tahitians and Kanaks.
Re: France grossly underestimated radioactive fallout from atom bomb tests, study
#81 mSv is a pretty low threshold. It's actually a bit more than 10x the radiation of a thorax x-ray done with modern equipment. But its 1/10 of a thorax ct. It's also less than the yearly difference between the exposure of people living in regions with low and high natural radiation here in Germany (which, as has far as could be determined, has no impact on the cancer rate).
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Re: France grossly underestimated radioactive fallout from atom bomb tests, study
#101 mSv is a pretty low threshold. It's actually a bit more than 10x the radiation of a thorax x-ray done with modern equipment. But its 1/10 of a thorax ct. It's also less than the yearly difference between the exposure of people living in regions with low and high natural radiation here in Germany (which, as has far as could be determined, has no impact on the cancer rate).
Could you expand on this? I didn’t understand the problem to be the threshold, but the convenient underestimation of dose by a factor of 2-20x.