tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post118515802979431425..comments2024-03-28T12:01:08.192-06:00Comments on The Blog Fodder: Risk, Reality and RadiationThe Blog Fodderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11441978691701289074noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post-3329064288909675322011-04-05T02:07:03.432-06:002011-04-05T02:07:03.432-06:00This comment was left by SW Anderson but never sho...This comment was left by SW Anderson but never showed up on the blog, possibly because of a link or possibly because Blogspot does wield things periodically. I removed the link and added the URL to see if that works.<br /><br />The charts do put things in perspective, to a point. But duration of exposure and cumulative effect aren't covered. It's all one-shot dimensional.<br /><br />The Blog Fodderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11441978691701289074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post-17932784367616791272011-04-05T01:02:37.046-06:002011-04-05T01:02:37.046-06:00I see another comment I have left on a Blogger.com...I see another comment I have left on a Blogger.com blog has disappeared, I suppose because it included a link. I previewed it and it displayed OK, so I thought maybe it was being accepted. I'll try to stop by tomorrow and do it over.S.W. Andersonhttp://ohpblog.ohpinion.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post-39355138861147310672011-04-04T20:03:07.484-06:002011-04-04T20:03:07.484-06:00The charts do put things in perspective, to a poin...The charts do put things in perspective, to a point. But duration of exposure and cumulative effect aren't covered. It's all one-shot dimensional.<br /><br />There's also the matter of unlucky circumstance. Let the right particle of the right isotope type be inhaled by someone very far away who has the right vulnerability and bad things can happen at DNA level. At some later time, S.W. Andersonhttp://ohpblog.ohpinion.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post-81661880196753573642011-04-04T17:20:53.808-06:002011-04-04T17:20:53.808-06:00Agree the chart allows you to visualize the variou...Agree the chart allows you to visualize the various doses so you can see what is meant by some of the numbers relative to "what happens naturally".<br /><br />I read in a recent article in The Economist that they are finding plutonium in and around the site. Now THAT is scary stuff. They "don't know where it came from". right. Like were they making bomb grade stuff in The Blog Fodderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11441978691701289074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post-38528021630313177922011-04-04T16:50:43.531-06:002011-04-04T16:50:43.531-06:00The chart is an interesting way to put perspective...The chart is an interesting way to put perspective on the relative magnitudes. I like the comment about the bananaphone.DC Powerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00744278852877941486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post-48585668775017489872011-04-04T06:31:07.977-06:002011-04-04T06:31:07.977-06:00What dana said. Best quote of the week. : )What dana said. Best quote of the week. : )Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post-42620352105418658192011-04-03T17:23:33.175-06:002011-04-03T17:23:33.175-06:00man in charge of radiation is like man in charge o...man in charge of radiation is like man in charge of his penis. It's the other way around.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post-73506747755817652562011-04-03T16:19:41.789-06:002011-04-03T16:19:41.789-06:00If this is right, we should now be able to build h...If this is right, we should now be able to build houses within 100 feet of the Chernobyl reactor, and live in them, and farm those fields. <br /><br />Or have I missed something, like the half-life of the radioactive contaminants spread around the Chernobyl site?<br /><br />This is a lot more complicated than it appears. Even on the chart. Though the chart is helpful in getting the principle in Rob-bearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00171692478879522588noreply@blogger.com