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Sorry DOC, but I Remember the government propaganda from the late 1950-early 1960 that was on TV and shown in our class rooms at school.
These films were so inaccurate that a couple of my classmates fathers that worked with radiation went to the school and convinced the school authority's to change their policy's for the once a month drop under the desk in case of attack.
First they changed the under the desk drill in classrooms with windows to sending us into the halls and drop to our knees facing a sturdy wall, hands over our heads in the position one is to take on an airplane when trouble comes about, crash position.
The film that caused my dad to laugh out loud was the one about how radiation would effect people, they showed pictures of what the signs of poisoning such as face and body rashes, loss of hair, the kicker was the assurance that this would pass and not to worry about an issue of VANITY.
Doc, so much was going on way back then, it had only been some 15 years or so since Japan surrendered due to this new Super Bomb. Most of us kids were not even born then but our parents had seen the news reels at the movies and in most cases fought in that war.
Being that we now took that awesome power and had installed it in the NAUTILAS Submarine was a marval of the ages for our grand parents and living great grand parents.------Our world as we knew it changed the lives of every man, woman and child on the face of our tiny little world.
With the lightning speed of a thunder bolt, technology came at us, Yet still after all this time we are still trying to figure out how to dispose of the used rods in a reactor, where to put it. Disposal of the waste is mostly on site for our reactors, people speak of half life that may be 500 years in some cases. Cobalt and Plutonium, isotopes, what country was building their own reactors building their own Nuclear submarines.
As we in my generation aged we now could look back on all the Bull Shit we had been fed, the misinformation our parents had believed and our teachers had taught us as they were so misinformed themselves.
My generation went on to either tune in-drop out or in my case to marry into the Nuclear Navy and for us woman whose husbands worked riding the boats for months at a time, what bits and pieces of knowledge came to us on radiation or the concept of nuclear power had to come from them and listening to the MAN talk with their crew mates.
Only because those of us that had generations of family building the boats really took notice of what was going on day to day. People in Michigan, Nevada or Texas had no idea about what a nuclear plant being built in their area except the power was beneficial to them.
At my doddering age I can understand the fear of the people on the west coast, I understand why so many do not trust either the Japanese government or the USA to give us the facts, our governments do not trust us with bad news, they to survive have to lull us with promisses that can not be met.
