Conca also opined in late 2022 that in 1953, the United States detonated above ground nuclear weapons during tests at the Nevada Test Site. In 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi meltdown occurred in Japan. Both events spread radioactive material over many miles and over population centers. Neither event resulted in any adverse health effects from that radiation.
But the response to the Fukushima event was disastrous because of the irrational and misinformed fear of radiation. "at fear— not radiation—killed at least 1,600 people and destroyed the lives of at least another 200,000. "at fear seriously harmed the entire economy of Japan, stopped cold the fishing industry and other agriculture in that area, and, overnight, reversed the country’s progress in addressing climate change.
The U.S. tests spread two to three times more radiation than did the events of Fukushima over the people of Utah, particularly the town of St. George. Like with Fukushima, no one was hurt, there was never any increase in cancer rates, and no one died as a result.
But in Utah, the economy and people’s lives were unaffected. Why was there such a different result? The answer is obvious to famous radiobiologist Dr. Antone Brooks. In the 2020 article for the International Journal of Radiation Biology, “Cost of fear and radiation protection actions: Washington County, Utah and Fukushima, Japan,” Brooks and his coauthor, Bruce Church, compared the effects of radioactive fallout from 1953 atomic bomb testing in Washington County, Utah, to that of the Fukushima accident.
Even after receiving much higher radiation doses than those in Japan, the city of St. George, Utah, asked the people to simply shelter in place for a while. No other action was taken, although people washed off their cars right afterward. There were no health effects. Cancer rates in Washington County have always been among the lowest in Utah, which has the lowest cancer rates in the entire United States. Hundreds of similar tests occurred over many years, with similar actions (or inactions, as the case may be) taken by the population, and with similar end results (or lack thereof).
Conca concluded that radiation is a very good cell killer, which is why we use it at high doses in cancer therapy. But fear—and the biological consequences
and the regulatory actions triggered by that fear generated from LNT—of low doses of radiation remains the major biological damage induced by low- dose and low-dose-rate radiation exposures (see, e.g., the high price of public fear of low-dose radiation” by Waltar et al. in the Journal of Radiological Protection
[doi.org/10.1088/0952- 4746/36/2/387]).
So, it is no wonder that Japan failed, and continues to fail, while Utah did just fine.
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