On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 7:10 PM, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson < [email protected]> wrote:
> If the local wildlife has ingested 600 times the amount of radioactivity > to be eaten by humans, I find myself asking myself: how the hell can they > continue to survive and presumably reproduce? > One thought I have here is that 600 times permissible levels for humans might not be all that much. Sometimes regulators can be a little squeamish. I suspect this is as much for political reasons as health reasons -- it looks bad to say "a little radiation never harmed anyone." Eric
