• Nuclear tests

    From Blue White@21:4/134 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Oct 23 09:46:12 2021
    poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Blue White <=-

    There was an interesting documentary about the rise in cancer deaths
    among movie actors and personnel who worked on a couple of movies
    filmed around the same time we were doing atomic testing in the US southwest.

    I see the old, declassified footage of some of those tests and often wonder what affect those tests had on the ecosystems that might still exist today.


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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Blue White on Sun Oct 24 08:00:00 2021
    I see the old, declassified footage of some of those tests and often wonder what affect those tests had on the ecosystems that might still exist today.

    Probably less than you might expect if Chernobyl is anything to go by. The biggest issue seems to be when they are disturbed. Chernobyl's bushfires
    being a case in point. Mind you I don't think I'd want to be anywhere near Bikini Atoll in the next ermmmm thousand years.

    S


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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to Spectre on Sun Oct 31 04:59:34 2021
    Probably less than you might expect if Chernobyl is anything to go by.
    The biggest issue seems to be when they are disturbed. Chernobyl's bushfires being a case in point. Mind you I don't think I'd want to be anywhere near Bikini Atoll in the next ermmmm thousand years.

    I like to view Chernobyl as a physics-enforced human-exclusion zone.

    It's interesting that, while undoubtedly cancer rates are higher for animals
    in the zone, it's pretty diverse on species and whatnot.

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