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Originally Posted by tpunx99GSX
Uhm.... what do you call radiation? i would say that goes through the air and causes a lot more problems then smog.
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Do you believe that nuclear plants give off a bunch of radiation to the general public? I work at nuclear plants, design the machines that move the fuel, ride the machines, and stare at the awesome blue glowing fuel assemblies in the core, and move them around. Yet I still receive more radiation every year out on the St. Croix than I do riding 30' above irradiated assemblies over the reactor core. And that's me standing above the reactor. The people working in the accounting department at the plant in a building just outside containment, receive what I would quantify as pretty much nothing. The general public that lives in the city where the plant is, they will receive more radiation eating a banana than they will from the plant.
The canisters, "casks", that they put the old fuel into once it's considered "spent", you can sit and eat lunch next to, and probably receive more radiation from the lunch you just ate.
http://www.nukeworker.com/study/radi...n-n-risk.shtml
That's a good article regarding how radiation exposure affects nuclear workers. And this is geared towards nuclear workers, the people who are inside containment and around the reactor doing the dirty work. The general public receives a fraction of what that article is referring to.
Cheers!
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