Friday, March 09, 2012
Japan recovers sanity, Germany goes crazy
Via NPR:
Not surprising to sane people. Only surprising to fucking fools.
Meanwhile, Germany is continuing on the fucking fool path, switching from clean safe nuclear to the dirtiest of all coal: East German lignite. Famous for creating the deep brown smog that enveloped the Soviet Bloc for 50 years.
Health effects from radiation turn out to be minor compared with the other issues the people of Fukushima prefecture now face.
That may come as a surprise. We all watched frightening TV images, and clouds of radioactive steam and gas did erupt from the plant. That material did sometimes move over the countryside and into populated areas, so it looked like a horrible disaster.
But in the case of radiation, the dose matters. It's true, there is no bright line that separates a safe dose of radiation from a dangerous dose, but at some point, a dose is so small that any potential health risk is simply too small to measure.
Not surprising to sane people. Only surprising to fucking fools.
Meanwhile, Germany is continuing on the fucking fool path, switching from clean safe nuclear to the dirtiest of all coal: East German lignite. Famous for creating the deep brown smog that enveloped the Soviet Bloc for 50 years.
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