Re:Tsunami advisory in northern Japan after 7.1 magnitude ea...
by MaulingMonkey on Saturday October 26, 2013 @12:08AM
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> Well, first of all radiation is a entirely man made disaster, unlike a tsunami.
Tsunamis are not much of a disaster without man building and living along the coast where tsunamis may strike. The circumstances of the disaster are just as much man made as the radiation.
Future cancer deaths from accumulated radiation exposures [...] are predicted to be extremely low to none. Yes, but I find the paragraph in the source [1]
So if you then look into the WHO report which triggered the nature blog post [2], and especially appendix D, you will find that there was quite a lot of necessary smoothing of the data, for example, the difference between the average contamination of seafood and the maximum sample is a order of magnitude. And it is actually quite easy to construct a scenario, where consumption of a specific Tuna is a death sentence.So I think that a argument can be made for nuclear energy, but this argument should not be "no one will ever know we killed her. <evil laughter>" The argument should include sentences like [3]:
[1] http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/05/world-health-organizati... [2] http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/44877/1/97892415036... [3] http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~blc/book/chapter13.html