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During the time it took you to read the previous sentence, several plutonium atoms have decayed inside of you. After 48 hours, this is what that radioactive decay would look like in time-lapsed photography:

Learn more in Chapter 2.









Prefixes, conversions and equivalents

Tables about atomic elements, decay charts, fission yields

NuclearCrimes.org's sitemap and various public and government documents of interest we uploaded online: 1. Documents 2. Documents


'The greatest irony of our atmospheric nuclear testing program is that the only victims of U.S. nuclear arms since World War II have been our own people.' 
- Forgotten Guinea Pigs Report, 1980

Tips for arguing with radiation PR people
When they belittle your claims... by comparing any exposure from their facilities to... You say or ask...
...about your exposure to fallout from nuke plants or weapons testing fallout... ....background radiation... 'Background radiation doesn't mean it is harmless - it probably does cause a small portion of cancers.  If you are adding to the background radiation, you are adding to someone's risk.'

'How many more defective children will be born and how many cancers will be induced by this increase in 'background radiation'?

...about your exposure to fallout from nuke plants or weapons testing fallout... ...flying in a airplane... 'That is not a realistic comparison.  Radionuclides in fallout are incorporated into our bodies (tissue, bones).  Most of the radiation from cosmic rays is external.'
...about your exposure to fallout from nuke plants or weapons testing fallout... ... a chest x-ray... 'You don't ingest or inhale the radiation source from x-rays.  An x-ray lasts for a millisecond.  Fallout lingers in body tissue and bones for decades .'
...about your exposure to fallout from nuke plants or weapons testing fallout... ...eating a banana 'Potassium-40 is a naturally occurring radioisotope that has been present in foods and the environment on Earth for billions of years.  Potassium 40, which at normal body levels delivers an annual internal dose to the soft tissue of 20 millirem and 5 millirem to the bone, is not as hazardous as many forms of anthropogenic (meaning: artificial; manmade) radiation for several reasons.  One main reason is, unlike many types of manmade fission products, its environmental levels rarely peak to hundreds or thousands of times normal levels. Since 1945, we've seen a cycle of drastic rising and falling of levels of environmental anthropogenic radiation with nuclear accidents, non-accident releases, radioactivity blowing around, etc...  Another reason: some forms of anthropogenic radiation in the body do much more damage than potassium-40 for the same quantity of radiation. Dose tables printed in a 1970s document (NUREG 1.109 rev. 1 Oct. '77) by the NRC paint a spooky, yet realistic, picture for what happens to a radiation sensitive organ, the thyroid, when iodine-131 is consumed. A NRC formula indicates that 1,000 picocuries of iodine-131 gives a dose of 80 millirems to the adult thyroid and 140 millirems to the thyroid of an infant. Consider: one liter of 'Sunrise Dairy' (Kansas) milk in April 2011 had 1,518 pCi/L of Iodine-131. That was from Fukushima.
...about your exposure to fallout from nuke plants or weapons testing fallout... ...standing next to a smoke alarm.... 'You don't ingest or inhale the Americium-241 from smoke alarms.  You're talking about the small gamma component of Am-241.  That's external exposure.'