DEEP March/April 2014 Green Issue | Page 34

NUCLEAR POLLUTION THREATS learn more about that by watching the documentary “Sushi to the Slaughter” which was released just prior to the Tohoku quake and Tsunami event. Now what does that radiant contaminant do when it is taken in by you? Depends on a lot of things. But to understand the ramifications, one needs to know what the hot particulate does and how it can affect us. This occurs at a molecular level as mitosis occurs and cells undergo diplosis, when-where the radiation can create anomalies in the DNA of the new cells being formed. This can lead to maladies, including various forms of cancer. Dosage and genetics have much to do with the actual results of contamination. The thing to recognize is that it is a numbers game, sort of like the lottery. Will you win/lose it? Probably not. Could you? Of course. And the more times you play, the greater the likelihood of those anomalies creating something harmful. There is an axiom in toxicology and in pollution control, which roughly states this: “Pollution is resolved through dilution.” It works for many things, actually. Just not for radiant contaminant, which persists, but gets spread out, degrading the health of the planet potentially, depending on volume of contamination being seeded. Fukushima has injected a higher volume over a longer period of time than any nuclear event prior. Physicist Michio Kaku talks a bit about that in this online video, www.youtube.com/ watch?v=01bzU4Pjf-I. Pollution is quite simple to understand, as is its control. But first, one needs to get what pollution really is—a resource out of place. So take all of the fear based stuff you see online with a grain of (iodized) salt. Then begin to educate yourself about the world around you. We have everything to gain by evolving through this horrible event, and much to lose if we fail to understand the reasons it occurred, and why this should never have been allowed to be positioned by our embedded systems in industry and government. To think we can use the oce