New gov’t study finds Fukushima radiation in US marine life

originally posted by: MOMof3
a reply to: pl3bscheese

Does it come through the skin? I mean, is it painful or you don't notice?

Hi levels of radiation can produce burns, but you don't 'feel' the radiation, just the effects.

it is colorless, odorless, tasteless.

Look at it this way, an alpha emitting source like the one in the pic of PU in the tissue of an ape I brought earlier, is like shooting tiny machine gun bullets at nearby cells. Some cells are destroyed and die, others are damaged but survive. Some of those might have their DNA altered that can give rise to mutations and cancer.

a reply to: intrptr
I got a whole hell of a lot of rads 34 years ago. On purpose. Over my whole torso.
Doing pretty good so far.

a reply to: pl3bscheese

What you still refuse to mention pooping out half of what you ingest within 24hrs?

If not absorbed. The body absorbs minerals, it doesn't know the difference between normally stable cesium and radioactive cesium. That cesium may remain in your bones your entire life. The body doesn't detect radiation, just the damage it causes.

What about the process the body continues to go about slowly removing the remaining chunk of what got stored into deep tissue?

"Chunks"? See the pic of lung ape tissue, the tracks of alpha decay were collected over a forty eight hour period plenty of time to damage nearby cells. But again, the body doesn't see radioactive decay.

At least you remembered the difference between internal and external radiation sources.

a reply to: Phage

Lucky you.

From outside sources? That is, from a source or sources external to your 'torso'?

a reply to: intrptr
Yup. A big ol' machine, it was.
Daily, for a couple of months.

a reply to: Phage

Okay, twenty questions…

What kind of machine?

originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: Phage

Okay, twenty questions…

What kind of machine?

What it can create, it can also destroy.
Speaking of radiation, that is.

a reply to: intrptr
You know, I never really asked the details. But considering the timeframe, an accelerator of some sort (as opposed to cobalt or radium).

a reply to: butcherguy


He didn't answer me, I think it was a trick question. Radiation doesn't come from 'machines', per se.

An X-ray machine isn't really a machine, neither is an atom bomb.

They are radiation sources.

a reply to: Phage


Oh thanks. So far so good is right. I bathed in tri-chlor in vapor degreasers, sometime up to my elbows. Also inhaled a lot of lead solder smoke in the printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing industry.

(ahem) So far so good…

a reply to: Phage

Targeted radiation therapy to kill cancer cells isn't the same thing, and you know it.

You're purposefully being obtuse.

a reply to: CranialSponge

My entire torso was irradiated. Heavily. I have suffered no long term effects. Well, that's after 34 years. Who knows what the future may bring?

The dosage I received was far greater than anything one would receive from eating the animals in the study of the OP. Would I recommend that people just lie under an accelerator beam for no reason? No. Did it cause me long term ill effects? Not that I've noticed.

a reply to: CranialSponge

Privacy is a right, too.

NO ACTUAL DATA.

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a reply to: butcherguy

Many patients of early radiation therapy were also victims.

I guess that would be me.
I should start a band.
The Grateful Victims

NO ACTUAL DATA.
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a reply to: butcherguy
Burns from radiation therapy?
Heart damage from radiation therapy? Are you sure?

Like I said, I got a lot of rads. Just lucky, I guess.

NO ACTUAL DATA.

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a reply to: butcherguy
You said "I know people." So. No actual data. Stories.


I guess I was just lucky then.

originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: pl3bscheese

What you still refuse to mention pooping out half of what you ingest within 24hrs?

If not absorbed. The body absorbs minerals, it doesn't know the difference between normally stable cesium and radioactive cesium. That cesium may remain in your bones your entire life. The body doesn't detect radiation, just the damage it causes.

So change the goal-post. Good job.

There's just no reason to even try with you. You're concerned about details that are irrelevant to the big-picture.