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Re:Radiation Spikes at Chernobyl: A Mystery Few Seem Interes... by Retric on Friday August 18, 2023 @10:16PM (#37184810)
Ehh, that’s mostly a semantic argument.

People without acute radiation syndrome / radiation poisoning can still face significant long term health effects. So yea nobody’s hair was falling out, but they still had sufficient radiation exposure to have long term impacts.

However, these are also soldiers in a war. Their risks of being shot or bombed etc drastically outweigh the risks from radiation here.

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Re:Radiation Spikes at Chernobyl: A Mystery Few Seem Interes... by TheSpiceIsLife on Saturday August 19, 2023 @12:49AM (#37185617)
There’s no semantics about it.

Radiation exposure isn’t binary.

We’d have to know the type, intensity, and duration to make predictions about any possible expected adverse health outcomes.

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Re:Radiation Spikes at Chernobyl: A Mystery Few Seem Interes... by Retric on Saturday August 19, 2023 @07:45AM (#37187773)
It’s a semantic argument because saying nobody got Radiation poisoning doesn’t mean nobody was harmed.

People found out through researching what and where these people dug into the soil roughly what their long term heal impacts where.

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