Chernobyl does anyone remember it?

[Pete999]

Just following on from Kamikaze's post .. Radiation poisoning is actually an oxymoron as he goes on to explain, to add to his post and the points he made - when our bodies cells divide and multiply they do so with an inbuilt timer for there own demise IE a death switch, this ensures the coded sequence is kept as good as it can be and genetic errors in the dividing are not continuously repeated - radiation is a double whammy as it can damage the genetic code and also switch off the natural kill switch of cells which leads to many annoying or life threatening issues.
Cancer is just that and is caused by several factors from the solar radiation (skin cancer often a result), environmental factors, chemical/toxin exposure through to good old genetic flaws passed down to you.
Many people see cancer as some form of disease they catch but it is more so there own bodies genetic code been damaged and replicating the damage until it is either stopped or leads to ones demise.

Thanks for that interesting lecture DW lol

 

[Darkwood]

Woke up early pete, was bored just occupying my time before I jumped up and went to work... yep! sliding off topic I guess.

 

[Pete999]

Woke up early pete, was bored just occupying my time before I jumped up and went to work... yep! sliding off topic I guess.

Are you boasting ? jumped up, I have to be prised up, either that or the fear of peeing myself, the bed has a better glue than that Gorilla stuff they flog in the DIY outlets.

 

[ruston]

Not an expert by any stretch but one of the cancers I had was viral.
5% of the population have this virus but they do not know what triggers it to become cancerous.

 

[elsparko]

nevermind chernobyl, who remembers fukishima? the almost unsolvable disaster

 

[Pete999]

nevermind chernobyl, who remembers fukishima? the almost unsolvable disaster

Chernobyl may not be as disasterous as Fukishima, but it was misery for thousands of people, and still is to this day, so please don't dimiss it so lightly.

 

[elsparko]

Chernobyl may not be as disasterous as Fukishima, but it was misery for thousands of people, and still is to this day, so please don't dimiss it so lightly.

i still remember videos of farmers having to scrape the soil off their land and stuff, im not saying it wasnt a disaster, but it was contained relatively quickly, fukishima is a whole different beast though, reactors built on the shoreline of a tsunami risk area, what could go wrong went wrong, were never going to recover those reactor cores that are slowly making their way through the earths crust

the millions of gallons of sea water contaminated then stored in towers that leak heavily into the ocean , some of the waste water is pumped directly into the sea

we know enough about radiation to know that this is not beneficial for any living being, have a look at a documentary about the wildlife post chernobyl

 

[elsparko]

someone should point all the scrap metal thieves to all the metal sitting around in pripyat? a fortune to be made there shirley, first one to the elephants foot wins!

 

[Kamikaze]

What part of this contains nuclear material?
An MRI scan does not emit or use ionising radiation as part of the measurements.

I haven’t got a Scooby Doo. A scientist friend once upon a time told me that and I’ve never had a reason to doubt her. I’m more than happy to reclassify my comment from “True” to “Probably True” until I’ve had a chance to check out that statement. I still see her from time to time, so if I remember, I will ask her for more information. I’ve been in the CERN archives but this was fruitless. The research is probably stored under some other name.

 

[Squid]

I visited Loch Buie on the Isle of Mull a couple of years later, and it was clear that some fallout had had an effect there on the livestock and the ground-cover.

Must have been a radiation leak in the 17th century, looking at the locals.........