Not that we haven’t messed up in some ways. It is very difficult, and very rare, for anyone to be hurt by any dose of radiation obtainable in our society, even working at nuclear sites.Ībove-ground atomic bomb test at the Nevada Test Site while troops look on. They also had no increased cancers from radiation. St George Utah, the site of the most downwind deposition of fallout from the Nevada Nuclear Test Site, has the second lowest cancer rates in the country. These cities were rebuilt completely and had no radioactive legacy, and no increased incidences of cancer outside of those exposed at the actual moment of the atomic blast in 1945. In addition, the often-hyped dead zones following nuclear blasts in futuristic scenarios also never materialized, even in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
In other words, people have died because of this unfounded fear of radiation. This misperception has led to dramatic fears of even low levels of radiation and fears of necessary medical radiological procedures. Yet the general public, and indeed most scientists, are unaware of this, and widely believe that irradiated survivors suffered a very high cancer burdens and dramatically shortened life spans, and that their progeny were affected by elevated mutation rates and frequent abnormalities. Survivors that received huge whole body doses of 1 Gy irradiation (~1000 mSV, ~100 rem) have a significantly elevated rate of cancer (42% increase) but only limited decrease of longevity (about 1 year), while their offspring show no increased frequency of abnormalities and no detectable elevation in mutation rates.
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