" İnsan ne kadar çok bilgi sahibi olursa olsun, bildikleri için de kendine en faydalı olanı, yaşayışı esnasında uygulayacağı ve kendine lazım olan bilgilerdir."
"They've spent thirty years pushing their husbands up the greasy pole, or they've endure thirty years of fallout as their husbands have climbed it for themselves."
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So, what were her options? Subject half the country to generations of nuclear fallout? Try to get recruited by the Society all over again? Or even if she did, what could she accomplish without Nico--who was, for better or worse (worse, definitely worse), her necessary other half?
Ugh, that smug bastard. She hoped he couldn't hear that particular thought from wherever he was, which she assumed was somewhere idyllic. Because of course he would be somewhere nice. He was Nico. He would never accidentally date someone who would trap him elsewhere in time.
A dirty bomb is a weapon that couples radioactive material with a conventional explosive for the main purpose of spreading radioactivity and thereby simulating nuclear fallout. They have no value to the military, only to terrorists. Dirty bombs are really designed to exploit people’s heightened fear of even small amounts of radioactivity, and thus induce terror. As with nuclear bombs, their percussive effects pose the biggest health threat, since it is difficult to pack enough radioactivity into a dirty bomb to cause radiation sickness. The larger the explosive component, the further the radioactivity is spread. When the radioactivity is spread over a greater area, however, its concentration is greatly diluted and its potential health impact is, therefore, greatly lessened as well.
A Marshall Islands Nuclear Claims Tribunal was established to dispense compensation for personal injury and property damage to those deemed to have health problems caused by the testing. As of 2003, over $83 million in personal injury awards had been awarded to a total of 1,865 individuals who claimed a total of 2,027 radiation-related ailments. By May 2009, all funds awarded by the US Congress were completely exhausted, with $45.8 million in unpaid personal injury claims still owed the Marshallese fallout victims. Many have died while waiting to be paid. It is estimated that over 50% of the valid claimants died before realizing the full amount of their awarded compensation.
The radioisotopes in fallout with a significant potential to affect health are few: iodine-131 (8-day half-life), strontium-89 (52-day half-life), strontium-90 (28-year half-life), and cesium-137 (30-year half-life). As can readily be seen, the iodine-131 represents a relatively short-term risk, but strontium-90 and cesium-137 can persist for years.
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