OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson <orionwo...@charter.net> 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? > They are reproducing like the dickens. Hideo Ikegami and Mike Melich both told me that the radiation safety standards are based on wild guesses. They more or less pulled the numbers out of a hat. There were some studies based on the mortality rates from the Hiroshima bomb, but that hardly seems like a good model to me. A lot else was going on with those people, such as burns, starvation and disease. I think there were animal studies, but I have heard the results were all over the map. Ikegami said that one point they tested tritium in fish (T2O). They put in supposedly fatal doses. The fish were unfazed. Having said all that, I sure wouldn't eat those boars, or the plants they are eating. I wouldn't want to live there. Nobody lives there. That's why the boar, monkey and mice populations are exploding. - Jed
