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This is an extract from a recent post to the
list: "With conventional explosives and a few
ounces of cesium 137 or strontium 90, a dirty bomb could contaminate large
swaths of real estate with dangerous radiation, unleashing panic and rendering
some areas uninhabitable for decades."
(1) Why does the word radiation always have to have a modifier
like, "dangerous" or "poison"? Is it because it might not frighten anyone
without it? (2) Also, isn't "contamination" in the eye of the beholder
(excluding bureaucratic pontifications)? (3) Why would some of the world's
most valuable real estate be "uninhabitable" for decades? Is there an assumed
ordnance against remediation? So called, "professionals" do no one a service by
such inflammatory language and hyperbole!! Where do they come from? Hope I
wasn't too harsh; just
puzzled!
Ed
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