What are other natural sources of radiation exposure for the average person?
Since those people particularly susceptible to cancer can get cancer from “natural” radiation, in a democracy the populace should be able to declare “we want no more radiation than already exists”. Actually, so-called background radiation is already elevated by bomb testing at the Nevada Test Site, by accidents such as Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, and, in this area, by the presence of accelerators and current and former reactor locations, e.g., Mare Island, UC’s Etcheverry reactor, LBNL’s Bevatron and Advanced Light Source, the Vallecitos reactor and radionuclide research at the Lawrence Livermore and Berkeley Labs. As for consumer products, we can choose not to have chest X-rays or take airplane flights or use a smoke detector, but we cannot make a choice regarding exposure of ourselves or our children to radiation if we are not informed of its existence. We are very concerned that the San Francisco Bay Area does have extraordinarily high rates of breast and prostate cancer. Howev
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