Fair enough. Unfortunately you can walk around with a geiger counter and perceive the dangers of nuclear in the 2 disaster areas. You can’t perceive the coal pollution in most areas except when it gets bad enough.
You can’t perceive the coal pollution in most areas except when it gets bad enough.
While you can’t measure it without devices, you can also measure pollution if it’s not bad enough to be visible to everybody.
A geiger counter doesn’t perceive dangers. It just measures radiation. The problem is that the value that it measures gets combined with pseudoscientific models of what radiation does to the human body.
If you eat a banana every three days that exposes you to more radiation then living near Chernobyl. BBC gives 0.1 micro Sievert per banana which gives you 12 micro Sievert per year if you eat a banana every three days. On the other hand living in the exclusion zone only gives you 8.8 mirco Sievert per year.
Agree with everything but the last bit. It is possible to find fragments of the core itself still in the area with a kilometer or so of the reactor. These tiny fragments are high level nuclear waste.
To the extend that you can currently find fragments of the core, that’s the result of it not being worthwhile to clean those up. Cleaning up an area of a kilometer is not that hard if you want to do it.
Fair enough. Unfortunately you can walk around with a geiger counter and perceive the dangers of nuclear in the 2 disaster areas. You can’t perceive the coal pollution in most areas except when it gets bad enough.
While you can’t measure it without devices, you can also measure pollution if it’s not bad enough to be visible to everybody.
A geiger counter doesn’t perceive dangers. It just measures radiation. The problem is that the value that it measures gets combined with pseudoscientific models of what radiation does to the human body.
If you eat a banana every three days that exposes you to more radiation then living near Chernobyl. BBC gives 0.1 micro Sievert per banana which gives you 12 micro Sievert per year if you eat a banana every three days. On the other hand living in the exclusion zone only gives you 8.8 mirco Sievert per year.
Agree with everything but the last bit. It is possible to find fragments of the core itself still in the area with a kilometer or so of the reactor. These tiny fragments are high level nuclear waste.
https://youtu.be/ejZyDvtX85Y
To the extend that you can currently find fragments of the core, that’s the result of it not being worthwhile to clean those up. Cleaning up an area of a kilometer is not that hard if you want to do it.