Rhodes has a very nice story about how hard it is to make things happen, somebody is asked to set fire to "a lump of wood" which turns out to be petrified, a stone fossil. The moral of the story being getting above the energy threshold to make interesting things happen fast, is really hard.
Your point is well made. We're under continuous bombardment (bad word) by the products of fission and fusion, and live surrounded by "active" things in the radioactive sense. Some people in some areas with high radioactivity are told to vent their sub-basement because it can be bad over the lifetime of living there.
Coal miners have different exposure risks to other people. Fly ash from coal power stations has a different level of radioactivity to other waste products. And so it goes on. As you point out, even absent human activity, there's "radioactivity" all around us all the time.
Thank you, I had no wish to be "that pedant" it's more that "Nuclear Event" is a phrase that generally has a particular small scale meaning to some .. counting flashes of light in a crystal as indirect evidence of nuclear events was stock in trade for a few decades here :)
I'm not all in for nuclear power, I understand the risk of bombs, I also like to point out we live surrounded within a literal sea of radioactivity that many are simply unaware of.
Your point is well made. We're under continuous bombardment (bad word) by the products of fission and fusion, and live surrounded by "active" things in the radioactive sense. Some people in some areas with high radioactivity are told to vent their sub-basement because it can be bad over the lifetime of living there.
Coal miners have different exposure risks to other people. Fly ash from coal power stations has a different level of radioactivity to other waste products. And so it goes on. As you point out, even absent human activity, there's "radioactivity" all around us all the time.