The company's that produce these military weapons
Why do you do that? It's "companies". Don't you read anything but the illiterate ramblings on Yahoo? Meet Bob, maybe you can look less like an illiterate moron.
Mods, I'm offtopic, please mod me down.
Oops, Sorry!.
Hope my poor spelling did not stop you from understanding my message.
Seriously dude, It's slashdot and you find my minor spelling mistake so changing ?
Unless they're running for a train in London...
sarcasm warning
Look that was an honest mistake he did sort of look like one of the guys they were looking for
and the coppers are human if at the critical moment , when you have to ID the person you are about to assassinate,
nature calls well nature calls man
Its part of a pattern of using military weaponry against civilians. In The Battlefield Today? In Your Backyard Tomorrow.
The company's that produce these military weapons have fewer places to sell their products.
Stuff like fewer wars and more country's starting to sign up to and believe in Geneva conventions puts a dampener on things.
You know Peace can be a bit of a pain in the arse.
But do not worry when you have a nation , Insert god fearing christian nation here, thats freaked out by Musilm's
....average throat-cutting, convoy robbing, wife-whuppin', goat-fucking Taliban Mujahedin* in the Iraq or the Afghanistan. Yay for Democracy, Freedom and other Western Values.
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* This image of the Taliban is based on post-Soviet era Western media portrayal. Before that the Mujahedin were brave, just, honest and peace-loving farmers who were badly abused by the Bloody KGB and only kept goats for the milk and the meat**.
** This image of the brave, just, honest and peace-loving Mujahedin is in reality Western propaganda while the image of the "average throat-cutting, convoy robbing, wife-whuppin', goat-fucking Taliban Mujahedin" is the truth
Not sure if troll or just an idiot.
Colorado, for instance, has a much higher level of radiation than most other states in the US,.....
Please ease up on the language I am just expressing my opinion .
While unlike you I can not say confidently I know how radiation actually works. I am not sure I would even if I had a phd in Nuclear Physics however I know enough to treat something I cannot touch,hear,taste or smell with a healthy dose of fear.
...Believe it or not radiation is a complex and not at all obvious thing. Most people haven't studied it in any significant fashion, in a university or otherwise. In the same way a doctor would never encourage someone to self diagnose, I would never encourage someone to measure radioactive exposure by themseves. It would be irresponsible for me to do so
I think we have to view the question in the context of this poster is living in Japan and the Japanese government can not be trusted to give out accurate and trust worthy information.
To put it in your analogy the town doctor is saying everything is fine but the doctor is being payed by the company that is polluting the town.
So what this poster is really asking is how does he go about protecting his family from radiation exposure from the Fukoshima disaster ?.
...Slashdot has educated people, with backgrounds in science, who understand the issues involved in nuclear processes...
Wow what at statement I don't think even nuclear experts fully understand all the issues involved in nuclear processes.
Like how to deal with nuclear waste for example has had people working to solve the issue for decades.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-does-the-us-do-with-nuclear-waste
....The point of course, is to make people realize that the notion that "there is no safe dose of radiation" isn't necessarily correct. Your granite countertops have trace particles of uranium in them. The Capital Building in Washington DC has so much granite in it that it wouldn't be qualified as a nuclear facility because it already emits too much radiation. We consume radiation all of the time from a variety of sources and our bodies rid themselves of it naturally.
That has to be the best way to trivialise the argument I have ever seen.
um but we aren't talking about bananas and granite here we are talking about people and are you able to defend
your argument better than just talking about and hiding behind the trivial ?
Alpha emitters should be approached with considerable caution: Because alpha radiation doesn't penetrate well, simple proximity to an alpha source isn't a big deal; but if you manage to absorb an alpha emitter, the alpha radiation no longer has to penetrate well to cause significant damage(just ask the late Mr. Litvinenko). Effectively, alpha emitters have to be handled as though they possess pretty extreme chemical toxicity. Properly sealed sources are pretty much harmless. Dusts, dissolved compounds, aerosols, etc. are to be avoided.
Yes this the reason why Chernobyl is off limits and if you visit you have to wear a dust mask because if you get one speck of contaminated dust in your lungs your toast.
u-235 doesn't emit "neutron rays", it decays by alpha emission into Th-231, with a half life of 700 million years. You can even hold a piece of the metal in your hand, wearing just the gloves of a rad suit so you don't have ingestible particles left on your skin. Sure, in a running reactor or exploding old-style fission bomb it can absorb neutron and then fission into many things including neutrons, but there are no exploding reactors or atomic bombs in Tokyo. In general, you need never worry about neutron fields, the situations that would put you in one are generally uniformly fatal.
sure
I hope that was a sarcastic post. U-235 has a half-life of 700 million years which is the only reason that there is any left around in nature. As such it is barely radioactive. The only time you have to worry about it is if there is so much that it is near a critical mass (=52kg sphere) or if you are likely to eat it since it is highly toxic.
I dont know about the 700 million years part but I do know that all reactor fuel is made from U-235 and is very toxic and radioactive.
perhaps
you are talking about U-238 which is 99.99 % percent of the form of uranium (apologies to uni lecturers out there but its close enough)
we get on earth the U-235 makes up the other 0.1% which is why you have to enrich the uranium before you can use use it.
http://www.cna.ca/curriculum/cna_nuc_tech/uranium_processing-eng.asp?bc=Uranium%20Processing&pid=Uranium%20Processing
Utter fearmongering nonsense. Neutrons occur naturally everywhere as secondary particles from cosmic rays.
yes you are right this "background" radiation does occur naturally and no your are wrong their is reason to fear as their is no known safe level of radiation.
This so called "natural" radiation is thought to be the causes of some cancers.
"...most scientists and regulatory agencies agree that even small doses of ionizing radiation increase cancer risk, although by a very small amount. In general, the risk of cancer from radiation exposure increases as the dose of radiation increases. Likewise, the lower the exposure is, the smaller the increase in risk. But there is no threshold below which ionizing radiation is thought to be totally safe."
http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/CancerCauses/OtherCarcinogens/MedicalTreatments/radiation-exposure-and-cancer
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