Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Re: [Geology2] Sulphur smell from Tongariro heading south

Victor,

You wrote:

> BTW I see Japan has some beautiful large mutant butterflies from the Fukushima disaster. I bet
your carbonate deposits have not produced that in Kansas.

Not even close, fortunately. Radium at these levels is really only a
risk if taken internally, which causes the concern about drinking water.
At Fukushima, the prompt exposure was mostly from gamma and beta
emitting fission products, and it takes a lot of exposure to make
heritable damage.

Chuck


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