QUOTE(puckSR @ Apr 3 2006, 07:55 PM)
Guys...if you havent figured it out yet....
Xmedia-->IrishBastard-->jha'dhur
bluemedia is someone else...or there is something really really wrong with Xmedia
Couple of hints.....
incredibly insulting...when it isnt necessary
goes completely off topic for no reason
obsesses over rather odd topics
strictly anti-catholic protestant who is anti-government(well the current govt...)
poor math skills--->which i will explain later
Apparently though...Xmedia finally got a lesson on how gravity worked....and that might explain his new arrogance....
Now...I could be very wrong....but it all makes sense when you think about it
On the topic:
jha'dhur is correct...
Atomic sites are inhabitable....Nagasaki, Hiroshima, test sites in Nevada
sites of nuclear disasters are also inhabitable....such as Chernobyl.
However, take the example of the Bikini atoll. It was the site of nuclear bomb testing in the pacific.
The people of the bikini atoll were moved in 1946....in 1975 the people tried to return...but there were still significant radiation fears...currently the island is inhabitable...
Just remember that except for Chernobyl...you are discussing atomic bombs...not nuclear bombs....
Chernobyl wasnt a bomb....and shouldnt be compared to one....
We only have one area that was devastated by nuclear weapons....and they are still having problems 50 years later.
That would make me right not jha'dhur, unless I misunderstand something. His stance is all is well in those sites. I provided a link that says otherwise, a few posts up.
I exaggerated the amount of years, for effect, however, they are less habitable, then areas not of radiation.
http://www.bikiniatoll.com/QUOTE
"It is safe to walk on all of the islands...The Advisory Group reaffirmed: although the residual radioactivity on islands in Bikini Atoll is still higher than on other atolls in the Marshall islands, it is not hazardous to health at the levels measured. Indeed, there are many places in the world where people have been living for generations with higher levels of radioactivity from natural sources - such as the geological surroundings and the sun - than there is now on Bikini Atoll...By all internationally agreed scientific and medical criteria...the air, the land surface, the lagoon water and the drinking water are all safe. There is no radiological risk in visiting the lagoon or the islands. The nuclear weapon tests have left practically no cesium in marine life. The cesium deposited in the lagoon was dispersed in the ocean long ago.
"The main radiation risk would be from the food: eating locally grown produce, such as fruit, could add significant radioactivity to the body...Eating coconuts or breadfruit from Bikini Island occasionally would be no cause for concern. But eating many over a long period of time without having taken remedial measures might result in radiation doses higher than internationally agreed safety levels."