> the supergeniuses at Brookhaven National Labs decided it would be a good thing
Doing this next to an aquifer was reckless. But doing it at all is just science.
> I grew up on Long Island and I expect that it will eventually kill me
Wouldn't we expect to have solid data on this by now?
Also, "Caesium-137 has a half-life of about 30.04 years" [1]. Less than a quarter of the original sample is still Cs-137. (The rest is mostly naturally-occuring barium.)
Not OP but I doubt it. I’m in my mid 30s and when I grew up there in the 90s, Suffolk county was bumble. Some people had horses on their land. After 9/11, a ton of people moved in from the city and the population absolutely ballooned. Over two decades, the population grew so much that just Nassau county and Suffolk county combined has more people than a handful of states. People come and go too (including myself) so unless some organization is tracking us, it’ll be hard to pinpoint.