Holy radioactivity, Batman! That is truly terrifying. But how does this compare with the natural radioactivity of foods? Bananas have a Becquerel count of about 130/kg, and Brazil nuts can have a count of up to 444/kg.

So you might have said that some of the mushrooms were a bit more radioactive than bananas, with the most radioactive of them a bit less than three times as radioactive as bananas, or about 80% as radioactive as Brazil nuts. How terrifying would it have been to put it that way?

Yep, with radiation like that I reckon the Japs should start dropping like flies real soon.

Fester....lol....do you even read the words you type:)

(Yep, with radiation like that I reckon the Japs should start dropping like flies real soon)....So....all human activities should be treated as F.I.N.E with your logic.

The sun is a nuclear reactor( and since the 19th industrial revolution by humans....now skin cancer is killing in just the same way or do you disagree? I wonder when the first skin cancer case was discovered?

Radiation poisoning which I agree in small doses can be in the long term is still not fully understood. So why do you seem not to be worried?

So when the planet is contaminated (like its not already), what are you going to tell your children?

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Planet 3: "So when the planet is contaminated (like its not already), what are you going to tell your children?"
Fester will say, as children who have consistently refused to listen and take advice always do, "Why didn't someone tell me it was going to be like this?'
This is why the planet is on a fast track to perdition. And now the government is busily reducing 'red tape', or as one industrialist said, 'green tape', to permit the more rapid granting of permits to pollute

Our planet is exposed to various possible catastrophic destinies apart from the Reactors going critical there is a remote, but real possiblity that Mother Nature may throw an asteroid at us which could reduce us to a patch of deep frozen solar gravel and shock waves that trigger of earthquakes and volcanoes and put many other Nuclear reactors worldwide at risk . Especially in Japan which has many reactors reactors aside a two earth plates that could move due an asteroid impact

NASA, working with other national space agencies and private organizations throughout the world including Australia , is on the on the job of ensuring that no destructive asteroid ever hits Earth on our watch. What project is more worthwhile in the long term or awe-inspiring in the short term than protecting humanity from ruin? At first glance, asteroids may seem like a distant threat. But the hazard is well documented, and the consequences could not be more severe.

The history of life on Earth has been shaped by asteroid impacts. One million of them wider than 40 meters in diameter orbit the sun in our vicinity, by some estimates. An asteroid of that size struck Earth over Siberia in 1908 and laid waste an area 150 times larger than the Hiroshima atomic bomb did. The odds of a repeat in this century are about 50 percent. On the larger end, asteroids greater than about one kilometer across would
have global effects that threaten human civilization.

The first step in prevention is prediction. We must find, track and predict the future trajectory of those million near-Earth objects.Astronomers have already catalogued the orbits of most of the kilometer-scale objects they think are out there, and none are known that will hit Earth in the next 100 years. Yet the great majority of smaller ones, those big enough to destroy a country wreck Nuclear reactors, unleash a tsunami that devastates coastal cities, remain untracked. This unfinished business should be tackled next and dump nuclear power in the Meantime

What would I tell them? Always check information, especially when it comes from panic merchants.

With that approach I have found that fungi are a natural dosimeter of sorts. So if you want to get some idea of an areas total irradiation, you take fungi samples. Fish also tend to concentrate Cesium 137 as well as mercury, so it might be safe to avoid both fish and fungi from irradiated areas.

http://www.evira.fi/portal//en/evira/current_issues/archive/?bid=1282

Along that line, some plants have also been found to concentrate radio-isotopes. A notable example is tobacco, which concentrates polonium. It is believed that this polonium causes ~11,700 radiation related deaths in the world each year. That would equate to tobacco causing about five radiation related deaths each week in Japan from the polonium content alone.

http://www.tobacco.org/articles.php?pattern=polonium+or+spy&records_per_page=10

But that is just one radio-isotope. Tobacco also contains Potassium 40, Uranium, and Thorium. How many more radiation related deaths might they cause?

http://rpd.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/09/17/rpd.ncr375.abstract

Fester move to Tokoyo and prove us all wrong.I really don't think you really understand the issues.I dislike the Greens for their political communist philosophy but don't disagree with everything they believe.I'm not that tribal.