[gameswithgo]

how does the rate of radioactivity added to the air compare to farming? Plants with deep roots also extract radioactivity from the ground and then we eat it.

this is a serious question, which of course ties into the concept of "banana equivalent dose", which helps to contextualize claims about radioactivity.

[mannykannot]

For one thing, plant life is merely repeatedly recycling the mineral content of an only slowly-varying topsoil, while coal-burning is adding new sources.