subjects of my nightmares, I feel terrified for this guy.
I was traumatized by the movies Silkwood, the Day after Tomorrow and Nostradamus:the Man who Saw Tomorrow when I was very young and impressionable, leaving me paralyzed with fear of all things radioactive.

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Anything that is organic has polonium-210 in it, especially vegetation.

Normally, these are trace amounts that are trapped within the item. If eaten, they are passed as waste. The human skin reflects polonium-210, so if it is free ranging in the air, it won't break the skin barrier where it could do harm over time. However, if it is smoked or inhaled, it remains trapped inside of the skin layer and can scatter around until it lodges somewhere. This is one of the causes of lung and smoking/tobacco related cancers. Another is heat. Lungs and throat tissues do not react well to excessive heat. Doctors at Fox Chase in Elkins park, PA state that hot showers are extremely bad for lung tissue too.

I saw a Nova show on this years back. At the time, I had a StaticMaster to remove the static from my records, and that uses polonium-210. (Hint: that could be a legal source of polonium-210 to acquire, as they are still available.) Afterwards, I threw the thing in the trash. I was scared to have it around. That was back in the 1980s.

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how much weed releases? Due to my fears, I also have a seriously morbid fascination with radiation, documentaries, books, the Alexander Litvinenko case, Chernobyl....etc.

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The show I watched said that a person smoking a pack and a half of cigarettes a day
gets the equivalent dosage of radiation, over the course of a year, as 300 chest x-rays.


So crunching numbers:

365 days x 1.5 packs = 547.5 packs in a year.

547.5 packs / 300 x-rays = 1.825 packs per x-ray.

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As far as I know plutonium is the stuff that can kill you.

Polonium is found in marijuana, and other smoking organic substances and that conflicts with her weed avatar.

Know why.

Litvinenko?

Just sent him the article!

conducting investigative reporting on it.

Article is well worth the full read.

Unacceptable measurements in June, December and now in February.

Plutonium detected in people, on them and on their vehicles.

The river drains into the Pacific ocean near Portland, Ore.
The Pacific salmon swim up the river to spawn. The hatched fish swim down river to teh ocean.
I have not been able to find any reports of testing for the water or the fish.
Or of the streams, rivers, wells in the area which are used for irrigation of food crops.

My family spent a lot of time in E. Washington, off and on , when I was a kid. There seemed to be a universal acceptance that the Hanford was safe outside of the fenced areas, that somehow wire fences would keep radiation from spreading in the air.

About how the clean-up is continually delayed and goal years are moved further down the road.

Testing, when done, has been spotty, rather than in a consistent manner.

And information like the tunnels collapsing last summer and now these revelations that plutonium was found on and in people and their vehicles gets downplayed by the contractors and DOE.

And you never see reports that there is still a functioning nuclear plant on Hanford site. When I brought it up once, a poster here lambasted me, repeatedly saying he or she didn’t consider it part of Hanford therefore it wasn’t - even after I provided links from government agency showing it is. Sent me nasty PM too.

I realize this isn’t exactly on topic, but it needs to be mentioned I believe. We’re just going to see more inept contractors and subsequent accidents if we don’t get serious about funding this sites cleanup efforts.

https://www.opb.org/news/article/hanford-nuclear-reservation-trump-administration-budget-2018/