America’s Radioactive Secret

[Marlin]

OK before I get beat up for this, it is news even if it is Rolling Stone.

America's Radioactive Secret


https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/oil-gas-fracking-radioactive-investigation-937389/

[RDTroja]

But but but... it's natural radioactivity and we all know that's different.

[scotoma]

I was looking for some info on whole body counts for the exposed people, but did not see anything. The article was quite lengthly, so I may have missed it. Was there any data on internal deposition of radioactive material or other toxic chemicals?

[Marlin]

I was looking for some info on whole body counts for the exposed people, but did not see anything. The article was quite lengthly, so I may have missed it. Was there any data on internal deposition of radioactive material or other toxic chemicals?

I did not see any mention of a body count but then I did not take the article too seriously any way. In the articles statements of risk seem absurd on their face.

"A lot of guys are coming up with cancer, or sores and skin lesions that take months to heal," he says. Peter experiences regular headaches and nausea, numbness in his fingertips and face, and "joint pain like fire."

"Every exposure results in an increased risk," says Ian Fairlie, a British radiation biologist. "Think of it like these guys have been given negative lottery tickets, and somewhere down the line their number will come up and they will die."

Kind of hard to reconcile these statements with when the public health risk in the following article is stated as negligible.

Environmentalists question use of radioactive brine waste to treat roads

"Recent models from both the Ohio Department of Health and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection show that controlled application of brine containing naturally occurring radioactive material offers a negligible risk to human health,"

https://www.timesreporter.com/news/20191023/environmentalists-question-use-of-radioactive-brine-waste-to-treat-roads/1

[Marlin]

Another look at the relative risk would be radium (mineral) spas.

Milk River Bath

Radioactivity:16 nCuries per litre (43 Mache Units)  16,000 picoCuries

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_River_Bath




Significantly higher than the brine and people are soaking in it.

[atomicarcheologist]

scotoma
I read most of this article and didn't see anything on WBC or any ascertainments of internal depositions. Which is what I expect from sources like this.