"It Takes This Long For The Truth To Come Out"

So says liar Kevin Kamps....ironic, isn't it?  As if some conspirators have tried to keep the truth from folks (not true), but since some scientists did some research and published it, now the "truth" has come out.  The FDA has tested food and found radioactivity levels to be relatively safe, just like the authors of the blue fin tuna study have said essentially the same thing.  Video below the fold.

"The cesium left over from the Big Bang has long gone away...", so says idiot Thom Hartmann.  The Big Bang didn't directly produce any cesium, only hydrogen, helium and lithium.  It was only after stars formed that heavier elements were formed.  It is not the "byproduct of radioactive decay", it is the byproduct of nuclear fission.

"300 to 600 years of hazardous persistence", so says the same guy who said "It takes this long for the truth to come out".  It actually depends on how much one starts with.  If one starts with a non-hazardous quantity, then it doesn't take any time at all to reach a non-hazardous quantity.  If one starts with a huge quantity, 10 to 20 half-lives, can still result in a hazardous quantity.

And please, not the Oscar-winning documentary film "Chernobyl Heart".  An Oscar and a Nobel Prize are two totally different things.  The science behind the documentary was non-existent, though it was entertaining.

Yes, one radioactive atom in one cell MIGHT contribute to cancer....but the risk is tiny.  At some point we all accept certain risks as safe.  We don't think of driving as unsafe, or eating, or having sex.  Yet there is a small risk of death from all of those activities.

And back to the #4 spent fuel pool mythos.  The fuel isn't hot enough to ignite a fire of zirconium.  But those are facts, and they take even longer to come out than the truth, apparently.