Is A Little Radiation Good for Us? A Trip to the World's Deepest Clean Room (SNOLAB)

[@fissionphoenix4995]

I'm laughing at the "waves of relief" comment because you should know as well as I do that there will be entire communities that *believe* LNT was and is still "correct," no matter what further science and studies say. I'm laughing because it's better than crying in despair at the fact people are so ready to misunderstand how science works.

[@decouplemedia]

Yah the delivery of that line carried with it some tongue in cheek awareness of how these things tend to work. My reading of history is that eventually the majority tends to accept something should it be proven true. But in the short term, if it goes against tightly held doctrines, then you risk having your Brunos and Galileos put on trial instead of celebrated. All while you wait for a new generation to arrive with more curiosity than baggage.

[@ForbiddTV]

Something else the media always leaves out of the Fukushima water story is that all nuclear power plants release the same tritiated water, and no one in world history has ever been harmed by such effluent.

[@rshegg7605]

They would say that, you knuckle head.

[@ForbiddTV]

@@rshegg7605 It's true and most people have no clue. Tritium also comes from nature via the atmosphere, so has been in every waterway on the planet since the beginning of time.

[@robertbudd7905]

Great video, important stuff. I think the increased gravitational effect from being underground that far has shrunk SNOLAB personnel...based on comparison to the visiting Dr Keefer ;)

[@Dave5843-d9m]

The people of Ramsar an Iranian resort town on the Caspian Sea coast live with background ionising radiation around 260 mSv per year, the occupational limit worldwide is just 20mSv. A 2002 study by M Ghiassi-nejad et al. Published in Health Physit’s Journal said - “There were no differences in laboratory tests of the immune systems, and no noted differences in hematological alterations between these two groups of people.” Some think that a small dose of radiation is actually beneficial. In much the same way that small doses of ultra violet is beneficial. Too much is of course harmful.

[@Walkabout]

And that would be evidence of our current notions of "too much" background ionising radiation being vastly underestimated, right? 20mSv vs 260mSv? Seems to be a smoking gun against the overblown fears of radiation.

[@daveshannon6027]

Thanks for this. Down with LNT.

[@chapter4travels]

It doesn't matter what the results are, no regulatory agency will ever give up the LNT regs. The NRC would go to war over giving this up.

[@decouplemedia]

Can you say more about why?

[@chapter4travels]

@@decouplemedia The primary mission of the NRC is and has always been the end of domestic nuclear energy in the US and anywhere they have influence. They have been wildly successful in this mission.

[@factnotfiction5915]

@@decouplemedia Replacing a regulation with one that is 'more permissive' looks bad politically for a regulator. It is so much easier, with far fewer questions, to just 'leave it alone'. Note that the reverse is hard, but not nearly quite as hard. The reason is, most people are risk averse - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_aversion#Public_understanding_and_risk_in_social_activities

[@Dave5843-d9m]

The British company Moltex have a fully engineered nuclear reactor that is fuelled by used nuclear fuel. The very stuff we are told has no solution is actually a highly valuable energy resource. Even better, used nuclear fuel has a half life of 30,000 years. Moltex burns the long life elements leaving a waste with a 30 years half life. Why can’t we have this reactor.

[@chapter4travels]

@@Dave5843-d9m Not in the US, the NRC would never approve it. The NRC has to be completely replaced by a regulatory body that values clean, reliable energy for the world. The NRC prefers coal.

[@jarofranta153]

Interesting comment about growing radioactivity-free yeast, etc., requiring Potassium-40 (K40) and Carbon-14 (C14) free growing media: I can understand that getting K40 free media is expensive, requiring isotopic separation to get pure, nonradioactive K39. But getting C14-free media should be easy: any bit of coal or crude oil will be free of C14, since it has all decayed, millions of years after the deposits formed, back in the "Carboniferous" period, some 300 million years ago. Indeed, the massive burning of coal and oil around the world, has affected slightly the isotopic makeup of CO2 in the air, as well as in plants & animals.

[@decouplemedia]

Interesting. I forwarded this on to our hosts at the REPAIR experiment and will let you know what they say.

[@JBMurdock]

Really interesting! Makes me think of that guy, Galen Winsor, who would eat uranium to show it wasn't really that dangerous. I wonder if there is experiments being done where they totally block the Earths magnetic field to see what it would do to living creatures.

[@Walkabout]

Very cool, excellent work. The Ramsar, Iran effects are pretty mind-blowing! Are they simply correlative effects, or are more direct linkages established?

[@remasterus]

Hey! Thought you guys had closed down, glad to see you still making vids

[@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk]

The sun emits radiation. Without the sun, we die. Mic drop.

[@illuminate4622]

The Sun is powered by nuclear fusion. Fossil fuels and renewables come from the Sun. Therefore almost all energy is nuclear, with the exceptions of tidal and the primordial part of geothermal. Anti-nuclear greens, screech on. No one cares.

[@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk]

@@illuminate4622 I have been using nuclear fusion collectors for about 40 years now.

[@reneyoo6111]

But what about x-rays up to 2 msv could it be concerning or benefital? People are most concerned about x-rays doing harm than the actual inviroment.

[@tjhaefner]

Great episode. After watching Pandora's Box, I bought a small Geiger counter. Changed everything I thought about background radiation..... This vid is a perfect adjunct to build our body of knowledge.

[@mdeucemeyer]

Well made and well stated. Thank you Jesse!

[@jpd9047]

Once again, amazing work Jesse!!

[@PaulHigginbothamSr]

I have a small geiger counter and it usually runs about 20 counts per minute. Low radiation counts like this seems to make your immune system run better.

[@ovelendemar]

Good video. I would enyoy it even more without the music.

[@chrisjohns38]

Very good video. Looking forward to the research results. We talked about such experiments in the early 80s!

[@grlcowan]

"All of this opposition is based on the belief that any increase in radioactivity ..." -- not exactly. And by understanding exactly what the opposition is based on, we lose such respect as we may have had for it, but understand more clearly how to defeat it. It's not simply "any increase in radioactivity". It's any increase in radioactivity *that has reduction in government's fossil fuel revenue as a side-effect*. Radioactivity that has no such side effect? Um ... very deplorable, just awful ... Anyway, moving on ... Thus, the radon emissions from gas-fired electricity plants to replace Fukushima Dai-ichi, although they are about equal in raw keVs-per-second to the tritium in FD1's tanks, are of no concern. Thus, uranium that could power most of the world, if fissioned in a system with fast breeder reactors and reprocessors, is spread on farmers' fields as part of phosphate rock. Crickets. Google "nuclear by association" for more examples.

[@grlcowan]

Reducing the radiocarbon in plants can be done very effectively by growing them in greenhouses where all the CO2 is from the burning of a fossil fuel. Then grow animals that eat only those plants ... then grow predatory animals that eat only those 14-C-free animals ... So OK, maybe not everyone has a budget allowing the building of a complete underground ecosystem. I'm trying to understand here. Do some of you really have limited budgets?

[@nickmaiorino4744]

“Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” - Marie Curie

[@rshegg7605]

She died of radiation poisoning, so she was talking BOLLOX 😂 just like you 🍺cheers big ears.

[@dodaexploda]

Absolutely excellent video that summarizes the current state of things. Really well done and summarized. Everyone let's post it to facebook and get it in front of people's eyes.

[@christopher9727]

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[@noghanson6279]

I’m sure the Russians would benefit from a heavy dose - it might stop them attacking poor and vulnerable countries!!

[@TheLastOilMan]

We dont need to do this junk science. We are still here !

[@ibopwebop]

Great stuff!!

[@goyslop-consumer]

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