Re:Berkshire Hathaway buys Dominion Energy natural gas asset...
by acidburnNSA on Monday July 06, 2020 @08:56PM
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The key question is: how many square miles of Japan have annual dose rates higher than, say, 10 mSv/yr? If people knew the science and units of radiation dose response, I believe many would absolutely choose to live and play and raise children in that kind of environment. When you can detect a single atom decaying, dose rate numbers and health models matter.
"Consider" is a lovely word. I would certainly consider how they accounted for things like a ~220 sq/mi exclusion zone in Japan, if I had any idea what was being referenced.
> Wildlife has returned incredibly with the absence of humans.
It is true that many animals find radiation more tolerable than people. You can make similar claims about mountain top removal - thanks to devastated ecosystems, Kentucky is repopulating their elk.
When you get around to looking at the costs of these wildlife havens, enthusiasm for diving down this line of inquiry in any serious fashion tends to evaporate on the nuclear-booster side, though. "Something can live in any hellhole humanity can create" isn't the best of bumper-stickers, I guess.
> Climate change has pretty large potential land impacts
Anything that encourages taking these externalities more seriously than now...