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FBaggins

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3. Quite a bit more in fact.

Reply to chervilant (Reply #1)

Tue Sep 17, 2013, 09:44 AM

Sep 2013

A banana is 5-6 times as radioactive as the water that was released. Heck... your body is roughly that much more radioactive.

It's also useful to note that quite a bit of radioactive material was spread all over that part of Japan. Monsoon rains will necessarily wash many millions of times as much of it out to sea as the tiny amount on the ground around some tanks.

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1,000 Tons Of Polluted Fukushima Water Dumped In Sea [View all] xchrom Sep 2013 OP

Did you know that you get as much background radiation chervilant Sep 2013 #1

Quite a bit more in fact. FBaggins Sep 2013 #3

O, it's you, again... chervilant Sep 2013 #19

Breaking this down... caraher Sep 2013 #20

Well, "alls I know" is: chervilant Sep 2013 #21

Just trying to help out FBaggins Sep 2013 #29

Applause! I concur! PamW Sep 2013 #30

Thank you PamW ..... oldhippie Sep 2013 #32

No, chervilant Sep 2013 #31

Minimizing?? Denying???? PamW Sep 2013 #33

If its ever been shown that nuclear energy is not a sane way to make our electricity madokie Sep 2013 #2

Why not do the calculation for yourself? PamW Sep 2013 #4

I'm pretty sure that nothing in nature is even close to what man has made madokie Sep 2013 #5

Why don't you LEARN instead of guessing WRONG!! PamW Sep 2013 #7

I didn't say it was the only thing madokie Sep 2013 #9

Why??? PamW Sep 2013 #12

PamW madokie Sep 2013 #13

I see... PamW Sep 2013 #14

You can go straight to madokie Sep 2013 #15

So "I'm done with you" really translates to... FBaggins Sep 2013 #16

Another "my mind ( sic ) is made up; don't confuse me with the facts... PamW Sep 2013 #17

There's a more relevant calculation in this case. FBaggins Sep 2013 #6

IQ Test PamW Sep 2013 #8

Pretty much everybody has the horsepower. It's just multiplication. phantom power Sep 2013 #10

It's the "word problem" aspect that gets 'em FBaggins Sep 2013 #11

I agree, but... caraher Sep 2013 #18

When I see posts like yours: chervilant Sep 2013 #22

But she's right ..... oldhippie Sep 2013 #24

Really? chervilant Sep 2013 #25

Yes, Really. oldhippie Sep 2013 #26

And, I from yours. n/t chervilant Sep 2013 #28

I see it more as a challenge.. PamW Sep 2013 #27

And the danger from doing that is ... Nihil Sep 2013 #23