Robin

The alarm bells should go out. But the sky will not fall.

Like many issues framed in popular culture, radiation is not treated fairly.

By spending so much of their life at 30,000+ feet, aviation crews are exposed to more radiation than those of us on the ground. This occupation probably loses a few years of longevity.

For those of us who spend time in basements, we are exposed to radon gas, a radioactive element that comes from the natural nuclear reaction in the Earth's mantle. The scientist in this article, who lives in Vancouver, should be more worried about his basement than discharge from Fukushima.

The area around Chernobyl has become a great place for animals. Deer, wild horses, bears, and wolves have moved in. They are doing better without the humans around. As their life expectancy is lower, because getting cancer 20 years later does not factor into their life cycle.

It is my understanding that Fukushima is discharging waste water into the ocean. For sure, there should be no fishing in this area.

Will there be fishing companies who violate this principle? We should not be surprised if there are. But I attribute this flaw to our systems of governance, which slowly react to bad situations that could have been avoided with better management. As you know, I have a solution for that.

We need to take a realistic perspective to all the issues that plague us. The "no radiation" approach is just not going to find the better solutions. Fear mongering should not be setting policy and regulations.