We Live with Radiation Every Day

It seems we live with radiation every day.
Everywhere.
From outer space.
From the ground.
There is even a kind of  "natural" radiation in our vegetables that we have been eating forever!

And 50 years ago, there was a 1,000 times more plutonium in the dirt in Osaka and Tokyo than there is today. WHY? Because of the atomic bomb testing done by the United States and Russia, then later by China and others.
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A 1,000 times plutonium in the dirt than there is now.
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Good to stress that. Also, this would be true of all countries of the world. But I bet the US had way more plutonium in its dirt and atmosphere than we would like to think, even now.

And then there are areas of the earth that have more natural radiation because of the make up of the land itself.
For example:

• Japan has an average of 0.43 micro sieverts
• US has 0.40 micro sieverts
• China has 0.54 micro sieverts
• one place in Brazil has 5.5 micro sieverts
• and one place in Iran has 10.2 micro sieverts

This radiation reading has something to do with the natural composition of the soil and stones and not with nuclear tests....

One professor said something interesting this morning:
even though cesium has a half life of 30 years, any cesium that fish may ingest, for example, will be reduced to half in 58 days.

We consider radiation a poison, but it is also a cure. They now have special radiation machines that can pin point the ray to a 2mm point inside cancer cells. It is a 5 minute treatment. And the patient is up and literally running after it is over.

Here is a link to a really good story in Forbes:
What are millisieverts and should Tokyo be scared of them