It's not low level, it's thousands of times above what is considered safe exposure. If it was low-level and not dangerous, why would the oil and gas companies have spent millions of dollars lobbying for a specific legal exemption?
Did you actually read the article and the studies linked?
The LNT debate is irrelevant here. The article documents brine at thousands of times above EPA safe drinking water limits. That's not "low level" by anyone's model.
Guarapari is external gamma exposure from walking on sand. Radium-226 in road brine gets into groundwater and drinking supplies - internal alpha exposure that bioaccumulates in bone. Different exposure pathway, different biology.
The industry spent millions lobbying for a specific exemption for this waste. If it's harmless, why did they need legal immunity?
Why is my road not glowing in the dark ?
Haha, I think it might have if the chemicals stayed where they were, but it all runs off in the rain and goes into the surrounding soil and waterways.
But the cracks and potholes should glow,
unless you live where they have no cracks or potholes
If so, I would say your following the brine truck to close
If low level radioactivity were dangerous, we'd know about it by now. Go eat a banana. Full of of K40 (beta and gamma emitter)
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It's not low level, it's thousands of times above what is considered safe exposure. If it was low-level and not dangerous, why would the oil and gas companies have spent millions of dollars lobbying for a specific legal exemption?
Did you actually read the article and the studies linked?
Using the Linear , No threshold (LNT) model. That’s been debunked in the literature for about 20 years.
Yawn.
Google Guarapari beach.
The LNT debate is irrelevant here. The article documents brine at thousands of times above EPA safe drinking water limits. That's not "low level" by anyone's model.
Guarapari is external gamma exposure from walking on sand. Radium-226 in road brine gets into groundwater and drinking supplies - internal alpha exposure that bioaccumulates in bone. Different exposure pathway, different biology.
The industry spent millions lobbying for a specific exemption for this waste. If it's harmless, why did they need legal immunity?
Oh, and they need immunity because of one thing: greedy plaintiff’s lawyers.
It’s there already. Fret, if it makes you feel better. I’ll have another Brazil nut (chock full of Ra226 😊)
I guess denial is easier than action.
I save action for important things. Covering prime farmland with solar panels is a good one.