Louisville, Co- is this a safe place to live

[Frihed89]

I was involved in a large dose-response study of Hanford, WA. The study investigated the health impacts of planned releases of radioactive iodine isotopes during the cold war. I left Richland, WA before the study was completed and never bothered to look back. But I can tell you that there is so much uncertainty and so little data associated with the long term human effects of "nuclear contamination", it's hard to get results in which everyone or no-one isn't dead by now (and everything in between), and all of these results are highly unreliable from tail to tail of the distribution of various health effects.

[boulder2015]

Originally Posted by Frihed89

I was involved in a large dose-response study of Hanford, WA. The study investigated the health impacts of planned releases of radioactive iodine isotopes during the cold war. I left Richland, WA before the study was completed and never bothered to look back. But I can tell you that there is so much uncertainty and so little data associated with the long term human effects of "nuclear contamination", it's hard to get results in which everyone or no-one isn't dead by now (and everything in between), and all of these results are highly unreliable from tail to tail of the distribution of various health effects.

Also, while people are mostly talking here about wind dispersal, there is also the issues of birds and other animals eating it and pooping out plutonium fragments. No map can track that. Low odds that you will breathe it, but the chance exists. Either way, what humans SHOULD know by now is that playing with nukes is a fools game. Even a " small scale" nuclear war between india and pakistan could cause a nuclear winter that would mean most humans on earth would die. Nuke effects dont politely keep themselves within the borders of belligerents.

[SVTRay]

We know some people in Louisville and they like it. They've never mentioned any issues relating to Rocky Flats.

[BoulderRocks]

Radon is definitely an issue, throughout the country but here in Colorado as well. It's easily avoided by buying a home with a Radon mitigation system in place or by having the basement tested for the level. I once lived in the path of the plume of an active plant while my husband served in the Coast Guard. It made me uneasy when I first found out but statistically there was little risk. Probably going in for an X-ray at the dentist had a higher risk level!

Unfortunately so much of this is speculation. I recommend reading up on the fracking here and the landfills that have nuclear waste dumped at them. Those seem to be a higher likelihood of affecting your health.