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In reply to the discussion: 50 Reasons We Should Fear the Worst from Fukushima [View all]MineralMan
(149,640 posts)I've also seen the sky blood red at midday. Smoke from forest fires creates that effect. It's quite beautiful, but ominous, too.
A pink glow on the horizon? Near a large city? Smog. Same filtration of light.
It has nothing to to with radiation at all. At the quantities emitted from Fukushima, or collectively throughout time, there is no effect on light.
Now, I have seen Cherenkov radiation. Back in 1957, my junior high school science class visited the first commercial nuclear power generating facility every built, at Santa Susana, CA. We got to look down into the reactor, and clearly saw the pale blue glow of the Cherenkov radiation. A couple of years later, that plant had the first reactor meltdown of a commercial reactor, and exposed the area around it to radioactive isotopes.
That was when my opposition to nuclear power generation began - at the first commercial nuclear power generation reactor ever built.
However, I still stick to facts, rather than emotional fantasy when arguing against that technology. Facts.
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