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Your deeply flawed interpretation looks like it is a result of a toxic mix of intellectual laziness, and paranoia.


And I even hadn't moved on to the subject of the dangers of the Hot Particle.

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My guess is that the Japanese Gov't is going to have to do everything possible to clean up the neighborhoods with high radiation levels i.e. those in the immediate vicinity of the nuclear plant. If this means gathering up all the contaminated crops, and shoveling up gardens and contaminated farmland, so be it. I don't see how they can leave radioactive debris in peoples' backyards. This is going to be an expensive operation.


I think they have recovered around 35 hot particles (about the size of a single grain of sand) from the beach at Dounreay (Scotland) in the last 30 years but still represents a major human health hazard to anyone using the beach.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-11442701

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I don't see how they can leave radioactive debris in peoples' backyards.


Unless the folks whose back yards and property is contaminated have access to Geiger Counters and mass spectrometers etc for radionuclide species determination then they will be none the wiser.


Edited by Am_Fear_Liath_Mor (03/22/11 06:30 PM)