Then there's the time a congressional hearing was taken place wrt Three-Mile Island.
A group of scientists brought in a geiger counter to demonstrate the count was higher in that room then it ever was outside the nuke power plant during the emergency. (The stone in the walls was naturally radioactive)
Another time I read an article written by a guy that actually worked at a power plant.
He stated that he got less rad/year then an average resident of Denver, due to Denver's altitude.
My brother once dated a stewardess.
She stated that they were NOT allowed to fly if pregnant as the increased rad would cause  about a 70% miscarriage rate.

It's not dissimilar to vaccine fears,
It's a visceral fear that is very difficult to reason with.

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On Wed, 10/22/14, Kenneth Barns <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Fusion by 2025?
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2014, 12:31 AM

 On 22 October 2014 07:08, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu>
 wrote:

 On Oct 21, 2014, at 1:56 PM, Anthony Jackson <xxxxxx@iii.com>
 wrote:

 >

 > This is comparable to *2 months* of casualties from
 coal power, and is the worst accident in decades. It really
 is bad risk assessment.

 Agreed, aside from “oh yeah we cannot inhabit this
 large chunk of Japan for a thousand years or so”

 Immediate casualties aren’t the only costs from a nuclear
 accident. <http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/chernobyl-ghost-cities>

 Latest National Geographic has an
 article about "disaster tourism".  The author
 spent a weekend in and around the Pripyat/Chernobyl area,
 wearing a geiger counter the whole time.  He received a
 significantly higher radiation dose during to flights to and
 from than he did over the whole weekend on site.  To be
 sure, some local hotspots (eg. adjacent to the blade of a
 bulldozer used in decontamination efforts) had a higher
 mSv/hr dose than the flights, but most did
 not.
 Cheers,Ken "not that
 I'd want to live there yet"
 Barns

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