New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Did the Fukushima cloud cause cancer?
Ask HN: Did the Fukushima cloud cause cancer?
2 by noduerme | 3 comments on Hacker News.
I was living in Spain. 9 or 10 days after the meltdown, I had been tracking the cloud as it passed over the US and then over the Atlantic. As it happened, there was a major rainstorm near Granada the day it passed over. Being paranoid, I told my GF to stay downstairs and we went below. The next day everything was coated in fine yellow dust. I have seen lots of Saharan dust deposited on patios but this wasn't the same. My friend who lived next door at the time is 52 now and, this year, was just diagnosed with stage 3 lung cancer. Right around when he was diagnosed, I started having pretty severe shortness of breath which I attributed to "long covid" and haven't checked out yet. Perhaps it's a months-long panic attack or a sympathetic condition to my friend's condition. But my mind keeps returning to that day with the yellow dust that dried up in droplets when the rain mixed with the Fukushima cloud that was only 9 days old. What are the odds that we both sucked in some cesium during that first pass around the globe? AFAIK it hadn't really rained out substantially anywhere before it hit Spain.
2 by noduerme | 3 comments on Hacker News.
I was living in Spain. 9 or 10 days after the meltdown, I had been tracking the cloud as it passed over the US and then over the Atlantic. As it happened, there was a major rainstorm near Granada the day it passed over. Being paranoid, I told my GF to stay downstairs and we went below. The next day everything was coated in fine yellow dust. I have seen lots of Saharan dust deposited on patios but this wasn't the same. My friend who lived next door at the time is 52 now and, this year, was just diagnosed with stage 3 lung cancer. Right around when he was diagnosed, I started having pretty severe shortness of breath which I attributed to "long covid" and haven't checked out yet. Perhaps it's a months-long panic attack or a sympathetic condition to my friend's condition. But my mind keeps returning to that day with the yellow dust that dried up in droplets when the rain mixed with the Fukushima cloud that was only 9 days old. What are the odds that we both sucked in some cesium during that first pass around the globe? AFAIK it hadn't really rained out substantially anywhere before it hit Spain.
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