Are our knives radioactive?

mostel said:
I wondered this same thing about every Japanese car imported, and everything else, after the Tsunami. For this reason, I will not buy a new Japanese car. BUT the tragic truth is, there's really no escaping the effects of it worldwide. They dumped TONS--repeat TONS--of radioactive waste into the ocean. You do the math. Great topic, but one we can't do much about. I spoke to a friend the other day who said that after the Tsunami, US authorities dramatically raised the acceptable levels of radiation for everything in the USA. I have not verified that, because I do not know where to find the info. Does anyone here know where to find that info? Finally, at the end of the day, crazy as it sounds, this has happened before--Chernobyl, 3 mile island, WW 2, and others... and it's the world we live in. However, I will never let anyone convince me that nuclear power is safe. It's all about the money, even at the expense of the world itself. Whew! Heavy topic!
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Try a search at infowars.com
 
TwinStick said:
If it is really a threat, i think it is brilliant. Remember some of the older military sayings ? Artillery--Death from afar, Air Force--death from above, Head Cook--Death from within. Well here is the new one: Not making it yourselves anymore & importing it ?---Death from afar & within.

pet food
kids motorcycles
toothpaste
baby formula-liquid
baby formula-powdered
vegetables
beef
chicken
paint
& now steel

^^^Things that have been shipped to the US that contained toxic waste of some sort.
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Ironically the cobalt 60 in the original article likely came from the western world. Cause we like to send our expensive and dangerous waste problems to other places. Kettle calling the pot black applies here. Big change here is when we used to dump dangerous stuff in far away lands, it didn't use to come back. Now it does.

As far as knives go, let's hope no german makers are buying india made stainless stock.;)
 
That still don't make it OK in my book. It is not OK that we send out toxic waste anywhere. If it is that toxic, or the byproducts thereof are, then we should not be making/using/producing it at all. Big companies get away with that crap all the time.

Yet, i had friend that had 250 gal of fuel oil leak into/onto the ground. The tank rusted through. He didn't know what to do, so he called the New York State Dept of Environmental Conservation. They came quick, yet he didn't have a clue of what was about to happen. They condemned his home, he had to move his family to a motel. He had to remove 4' of the dirt in his basement (he had a dirt floor fortunately). It was considered toxic waste & could ONLY be hauled away by a licensed contractor (of which there were only 2 in this area at that time). He had to have his house aired out for a week. Every step of the way, he was being checked by the State Officials. I followed the dump truck one day & watched where they dumped it. The contractor dumped it on some property across the street from a game preserve---NICE ! Long story short, it bankrupted him. It took 2 months & he said between $25,000-$30,000 to do this. Yet big companies get away with all kinds of crap, like the contractor did.
 
TwinStick said:
That still don't make it OK in my book. It is not OK that we send out toxic waste anywhere. If it is that toxic, or the byproducts thereof are, then we should not be making/using/producing it at all. Big companies get away with that crap all the time.
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Not to burst your bubble, but if we want to look at the reason why "big companies get away with that crap" it is us. No one sets up and operates companies with the primary goal to contaminate the environment. What they do is make things that we buy. The processes used to make all the junk we buy is what generates this waste. So if you want to see who is ultimately responsible for all of this, it is the consumer that pays these companies for their products.

Let's face it, every manufactured item that you buy and use caused the generation of hazardous waste in one form or another. Want the hazardous waste to stop? Stop buying manufactured goods, or even non-manufactured goods that had to be transported by motor vehicle. I don't know about you, but I'm kind of attached to my things, and don't want to go back to living in a cave and turning into a hunter/gatherer. Yes, the waste needs to be handled in a careful manner to limit exposure to humans and the environment. But to say that there shouldn't be any is to deny reality. I get a big kick out of it when people in this state all take the stance that there should be no hazardous waste disposal locations here (and there are very few in California for this reason) but they sure don't stop doing things that generate the waste. It is just shipped to other states. And on a global scale, a lot of industries that generate a lot of really nasty waste have moved to third world countries because if they remained here, they would pay so much to control and dispose of the waste that their products would be priced too high and no one would buy them. But we have no problems with that waste being generated where the environmental laws are lax and the people are poor. That results in the poorest people being exposed to things that are the byproducts and waste for things that they can never afford to buy themselves. I think this is the pinnacle of arrogance to run the global economy that way. I think the people who enjoy the products should also be the people who have to deal with the waste.

On the subject of radioactivity, we are surrounded by it. Solar radiation, and natural radiation. In some areas, radon is a big concern. Around here, the biggest source is the uranium found in my beloved Sierra granite. There are some drinking water wells in the Sierra foothills that have huge radioactive levels, and it's all natural. After the Fukushima catastrophe, I had people asking me to test their drinking water for cesium 133. I had to tell them that the level of Cs 133 we were getting on the west coast was minuscule compared to the natural background from the Sierra-derived uranium. Then these same people who are all worked up about the Cs 133 from Fukushima go out and smoke a pack of Marlboros and eat a huge fatty meal. Guess where their real risk is. It's all about educating yourself about relative risk, and making intelligent choices. Don't let some scare tactics fool you. Look up dihydrogen monoxide to see how anything can be made to sound horribly dangerous:

http://www.dhmo.org/

Don't get me wrong, if there is a significant threat posed by things like Co 60 getting into the steel supply, it should be addressed. But let's be reasonable in our evaluation of threats.
 
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TwinStick said:
If it is really a threat, i think it is brilliant. Remember some of the older military sayings ? Artillery--Death from afar, Air Force--death from above, Head Cook--Death from within. Well here is the new one: Not making it yourselves anymore & importing it ?---Death from afar & within.

pet food
kids motorcycles
toothpaste
baby formula-liquid
baby formula-powdered
vegetables
beef
chicken
paint
& now steel

^^^Things that have been shipped to the US that contained toxic waste of some sort.
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Look on the bright side; the shorter our life span the better our national balance sheet. Oh-oh here comes the sandman.

n2s
 
I want to thank you all for your comments to my post.

Most especially:

woodkrafter - for the most interesting link
lambertiana - for the most interesting response
DactaD - for providing an actual check
coop1957 - for the funniest response (politically incorrect but LMAO!)

All in all seems like we're going to be OK with our (unradioactive) knives.
 
Actually, I was disappointed that my knife was not radio active. However there is a way to fix that problem. Just like you can magnetize a needle by rubbing it on a strong magnet, you can irradiate a knife by rubbing it on a spent fuel rod.
Now, when I walk in the woods at night, I just hold up my knife and the glow lights my way. Its better than a giant tritium rod! Unfortunately I have to hold it with my new third arm.
 
This came up with respect to antique and vintage knives and swords a while back. When you collect pieces made well over 100 years ago, from places all over the world, there is always a chance that some of these may be radioative.

n2s
 
Ive misplaced my edc .... Where the hell did i leave it ???
Dont make me angry !

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p.s. You're more likely to die because of your mother-in-law.[/QUOTE]

Perfect............then I've been bulletproof since this last May.
 
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How can you tell the decades long knife collector?

His grandsons are named Freddie Three Fingers and Billy Nine Toes.
 
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