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A comment on Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine. Parent comment

Re:Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine by bitL on Thursday July 19, 2018 @01:10PM (#17568396)
I hope you understand different types of radioactivity and what they do to your body once they are incorporated in your tissues long-term. Something like 5,000 inhaled particle causing cancer probability to rise by 1%... Enjoy your banana simplifications!
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Re:Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine by tzahola on Thursday July 19, 2018 @01:21PM (#17568493)
5000 particle? LOL! If that was true we would all have cancer:

“The average concentration of radon in the atmosphere is about 6×10−18 molar percent, or about 150 atoms in each ml of air.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radon

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Re:Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine by bitL on Thursday July 19, 2018 @04:55PM (#17570183)
Enjoy your ignorance:

https://ratical.org/radiation/CNR/CHfIP1975.pdf

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Re:Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine by tzahola on Thursday July 19, 2018 @06:00PM (#17570713)
Nowhere in this document do they state that inhaling 5000 particles increases lung cancer risk by 1%.

I recommend revisiting high school chemistry, especially the topic of molar mass. (Hint: Plutonium is about 250 g/mol. One mol is 6x10^23 particles.)

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