Reply #20: There is in fact, a safe dose. [View All]

Otherwise we'd all be dead right now since we pull 300mRem from background every year. An additional 1mRem won't cause any noticeable effect when it raises your risk for cancer by 1 in a billion. Considering the established limits for water are designed that if you drank 2Liters per day at the limit for an entire year you'd only see a 4mRem rise in your yearly total, and we have been consistently UNDER that limit, no I'm not worried.

"There is no “safe dose” of highly radioactive particles breathed into the lungs or ingested with food."

This statement is, quite simply, bullshit. Curie count matters, and the dose limits as set by the EPA are so conservative that for the general public you will not see a noticeable increase in local cancer rates at those limits, let alone radiation poisoning which would require 25000 times what the limits are set at to even begin to appear. Even for trained nuclear operators and their higher limits the increase in rates is only 0.04%, which is lower than the probability of slipping and dieing in the shower. If we compare that to the chance a person will die from heart disease 33%, well... That and cancer is in fact treatable. If you're really interested in saving life, you'd be much better off fighting for a good healthcare system than worrying about radiation risks from Fukushima.

And finally. Chernobyl happened, and it has released more radioactivity than Fukushima has at this moment. We're still here, and nobody in the US has noticed.