Ivana Hughes

around for a long time, is chemically similar to potassium.

And you also know that if you eat banana or if you drink some kind of a electrolyte drink or something, you take in potassium.

Well, the same thing happens.

If cesium is in the soil, plants will take it up

thinking, because it behaves like potassium, they take it up, it gets incorporated.

And now when you eat that food, that cesium is now getting incorporated into your cells, the kinds of soft tissues that use potassium.

Your brain actually needs a

brought cesium-137 into your body, now the cesium is this radioactive isotope that's gonna basically, after a certain amount of time, it's going to split and it's going to give off

gamma radiation.

And now that gamma radiation is inside your body.

It's attacking your cells.

It's attacking your DNA.

It's making you sick.

And a lot of kind of soft tissue cancers, including brain cancer, come from that cesium-137 exposure.

Yes.

Oh, absolutely.

I mean, the...

Estimates for the casualties of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, it's often cited what people think it was like 70, the idea is maybe 70,000 people died on the day of the attack.

And then another 70,000 by the end of 1945 from both kind of acute radiation sickness as well as cancer.

But the cancers continue to happen.