Nukes are GNARLY in large doses in SHORT periods.
You get a couple 100 Rems once. Goodbye !
BUT. After a short period. They degrade and give off low doses
Understand ?
- nuke engineer
But it seems that all the "experts", by which I mean people who are not actually engineers but who are academic type who rarely go outside, don't get that.
And they are the ones who build the models that apparently all policy is based on.
The average commercial airline flight crew gets a higher annual dose of radiation than the average nuclear powerplant worker.
You will get more radiation leaning against a DC Government building than leaning against the security fence around a nuclear power plant.
My instructor at the USMC school for NBC (Nuclear, Biological & Chemical) Warfare Officers told this of his instructor. That instructor was married to a Japanese woman who was a 1 year old infant in a bomb shelter in Hiroshima when the Bomb was dropped. Her health is fine and all their kids have been normal.
The firebombings of Tokyo killed about the same number of people as the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
War is hell. So are famines, genocides and purges caused by dictatorial tyrants.
Rwanda genocide - 500K to 1million killed
Pol Pot - 1.5 to 2 million
and on, and on, and on...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocides_by_death_toll
We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand watch in the night ready to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
#9 How many fingers and toes you have? : )