/sci/ - Science & Math

>>8527756
i think we'll live

>>5759545
>>downplaying radioactive waste like it's part of every growing child's complete breakfast.

>>5566620
Here's a couple videos of an oil refinery that outright exploded, in the middle of a metropolitan area in Japan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0M8q9bP-78
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvspkDSuUkc

This happened during the same earthquake that caused the Fukushima nuclear 'disaster' that resulted in the deaths of no-one and raised the background radiation level of the nearby area to 200 millisevierts per year. If you examine the attached image, you'll see just how little that actually is.

Do you think the contamination from a burning oil refinery in the middle of a city and right next to the ocean caused any sort of uproar about the environmental handling of oil? Why wasn't there an outcry about the toxic compounds washing over the city from the fire? This is stuff that would've easily made it into the groundwater, and definitely poisoned the local ocean, yet there's not a goddamn peep about it.

Could it be, that people irrationally focus on nuclear merely because of its name and what it represents, as opposed to looking at the hard facts objectively?

Want some more hard facts? The cosmo oil refinery fire actually killed people, unlike the Fukushima 'disaster'. (Which has one death - as a result of the tsunami wave knocking a crane over onto a man, killing him.)

Not really. The myth originates from Chernobyl disaster workers hitting the bar, and then something else.
>drink vodka
>it contains a compound that increases metabolism, ginseng I think
>increased metabolism helps flush out the radiation quicker, allowing for a larger dose to be non-lethal
Nothing large, maybe a few mSv

Radiation doses chart

Hi Sci,

What's the logic behind Cesium 137 dating? I was reading about it's use in authenticating vintage wine which was explained thus:

if/then: If it's present in a wine, then the wine was bottled after above ground nuclear testing began in the 1950's. Cesium 137 didn't exist in the environment until those events.

Does this mean all wines (and people?) from 1950ish-present contain Cesium-137?

How is it dispersed in the environment so that some items absorbed it and some did not?

Basically, whats the universal logic statement behind dating items with Cesium 137 and what objects does this apply to?

Sorry forgot to attach the image

ultra dangerous radiation bro
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetism

A large concentration of bananas.

Reposting shitty image.

Used this a lot after the Fuukashima disaster.

What makes me pause is that people have no considerable grasp of what radiation even is.

Radiation is not some toxic death cloud that causes mutations and cancer from a single touch.

The radiation released from Fukushima is, effectively, harmless. You might get some lung cancer if you breathe in the radioactive dust for the next five years straight. With every breath. Never cleaning up.

So we shouldn't really be worrying about radiation in our daily life?