Jodi Taylor - Nerd Girl
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Dr. Cohen, as an expert on radiation, would you tell me about the long-term effects of
contamination from the Canardias Bay incident?
Dr. Cohen, I can't give you as much information on that as you would like, Senator.
The most serious studies were those made of Hiroshima and much more of that work is suspect.
What do you mean by suspect?
At Hiroshima, we are compared to the incidents of cancer, leukemia, ***** mortality, and
other radiation-related diseases with the incident in a controlled population.
Initially the controlled population was a group of Japanese who lived on the outskirts
of the city.
As a result, there are incidents of radiation-related diseases still coming in, then the total results
of the Canardias Bay disaster aren't all in yet either.
That's right, sir, you have to consider that there is no such thing as a safe threshold
dose of radiation.
This is strictly a statistical concept.
Briefly, the half-life of a radioactive element is the time necessary for half its radioactivity
to disappear.
If a substance has a half-life of 10 days, for example, then half of its radioactivity
will have disappeared in those 10 days.
Half the remaining will disappear in the next 10 days and so on.
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