How harmful is nuclear radiation? It depends on the dose received.

[kowalskil]

Okay Ludwik, that helps alot, makes it somewhat clearer to understand. I think a big problem right now is that nobody is explaining information like that to anybody, then you see all those big numbers and it just seems enormous when in nuclear language it is not. Thank you for expanding on that for me.

Another thing I am wondering about. Is it possible to explain what happens to 'radiated water' when they dump it into the ocean at levels such as today??

Regards Mikal

It becomes non-radioactive, sooner or later (depending on the half-life of the contamination). And nothing else.

Your body, by the way, is radioactive. And bodied of your ancestors (long before radioactivity was discovered) were radioactive. Each banana you eat is radioactive.

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[Mikal]

Good morning Ludwik, sorry I did not come back but these peepers just wanted to close....smiles...

Depending on the half-life of the contamination; are we assuming that there is alot in that radiated water for example would there be traces of uranium or plutonium which have long half-lives? Or what is this term they are using 'low level' and how do we know that is the truth?

This is very interesting you say 'your body is radioactive,' can you explain that further?

BTW...I don't eat bananas, I have never had a taste for them ever, even in my childhood. Why are they radioactive?


Regards Mikal

[kowalskil]

Because one of the chemical components is potassium. One of its isotopes, K-40, is slightly radioactive (the half-life is about one billion years).

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[Mikal]

Ok Ludwik...Am I being niave to think that radiation within me would be natural, normal and not dangerous as opposed to radiation levels outside of me from nuclear power manmade and can be harmful and dangerous??


Regards Mikal