How Fukushima Led to a Radiation Panic

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4. The planet was already radioactive; always has been.

The Earth hasn't been "poisoned" by Fukushima.

This planet was already radioactive; always has been. So many here have this romantic notion that the Earth was pristine and free of radioactivity until the activiities of Man. Of course, anyone that has studied science and is versed in same, knows better.

This Earth and all the material on it was formed from the effluent of the supernova explosions of stars. That material was radioactive when it was created, and it hasn't all died away. Most of the natural world consists of elements with radioactive constituents.

Fukushima only added very marginally to that inventory of radioisotopes. Even a nuclear accident can't compete with Mother Nature.

We know how much radiation exposure it takes to cause cancer spikes; and the exposure due to Fukushima didn't reach those levels by a long shot. So the prediction of cancer spikes in the near future is out of order; there will be no spikes in the cancer rate, and no need to blame anyone.

Again, Fukushima is a negligible increase to a planet that was already radioactive.

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