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Greens are so cute, again
Apr. 13th, 2015 10:55 amReading an article on bbc about pollution near a Chinese city where they refine rare earth.
As usual, being a journalist and green makes one write nonsense. The guy got a sample of polluted soil and sent it for analysis to a lab. I expected that they will find unusual concentration of toxic chemicals, heavy metals, carcinogens chemicals, etc.
By the way to find a place where they use a lot of very strong chemicals he should not have traveled that far :)
I believe the lab found something like that, but they also found that the radioactivity of the sample was 3x of "normal" background radiation level. So in the final part of the article he writes about how terrible it is to produce rare earth and pollute surroundings with radioactive material that is 3x more radioactive than "normal".
I think someone should give this guy a dosimeter so next time he travels to an area with granite outcrops he measures "radiation 4x more radioactive than normal", or next time he goes to mountains for skiing he measures it 8x more than normal, and next time he flies anywhere he measures 50x more than normal :)
As usual, being a journalist and green makes one write nonsense. The guy got a sample of polluted soil and sent it for analysis to a lab. I expected that they will find unusual concentration of toxic chemicals, heavy metals, carcinogens chemicals, etc.
By the way to find a place where they use a lot of very strong chemicals he should not have traveled that far :)
I believe the lab found something like that, but they also found that the radioactivity of the sample was 3x of "normal" background radiation level. So in the final part of the article he writes about how terrible it is to produce rare earth and pollute surroundings with radioactive material that is 3x more radioactive than "normal".
I think someone should give this guy a dosimeter so next time he travels to an area with granite outcrops he measures "radiation 4x more radioactive than normal", or next time he goes to mountains for skiing he measures it 8x more than normal, and next time he flies anywhere he measures 50x more than normal :)
