In late August, Japan officially discharged nuclear sewage into the sea. The whole world was angry, but they had no choice but to watch as they finished the first phase, followed by the second and third phases... Until the queue is finished.
Why does the world reject Japan for doing so? The main concern is the impact of nuclear radiation on people. It is estimated that they will spend the next 30 years to discharge all the nuclear wastewater, and by then the world will be shrouded in fear of nuclear radiation and will suffer from it.
Nearly a hundred years ago, the experience of a rich second generation in the United States left us with an example. After drinking 1,400 bottles of radium water, his body was still feverish 30 years later.
The rich second generation who drinks radium
Ebenezer McBurney Byers was born well, his father was a tycoon, and he made a fortune in the steel industry. Soon after graduating from university, he inherited the family business and was enriched.
So rich, Biles doesn't have many hobbies, only likes to play golf. But once, he broke his arm in an amateur golf game and never could hold a golf club again.
This encounter made Byers very desperate and depressed for a while.
One day in 1925, Byers heard that there was a potion containing radium that was very miraculous, not only could bring people back to life, but also made people burst into powerful vitality.
Without hesitation, he began to take the potion and drank 1400 bottles binge. He didn't think at the time that what a foolish act it would be, and that he would pay a huge price for it.
Radium was discovered at the end of the 19th century and was refined by Madame Curie and her husband through trial and error.
After in-depth research, Marie Curie discovered that radium is a radioactive substance that can emit green light in the dark, is more radioactive than uranium, and can destroy cancer cells under certain conditions. In addition to this, other properties of radium have not yet been discovered by Marie Curie.
From Marie Curie's discovery, many people saw business opportunities, and William Bailey was a typical representative.
William Bailey first packaged himself as a "famous physicist" and then began to buy drugs containing radium, called "radium water". He advocated a lot that radium water can bring people back to life, which is simply not too amazing.
At that time, European and American aristocrats and wealthy people were very popular with this kind of publicity, and soon became a consumer group of radium water. It was under such an influence that Byers drank radium water.
Byers thought he was a beneficiary, not a victim, and an experiment "for human research".
Pay a heavy price
When he first started drinking radium water, Byers did not feel uncomfortable, only felt the water in his stomach, and his body began to heat up and full of vitality.
This feeling slowly conquered Byers, who firmly believed that radium water was a magical potion. Interestingly, he actually won an award after drinking radium water in a golf game.
Since then, he has never stopped. Before it was one bottle a day, and then it was a day without drinking three bottles and couldn't sleep.
After drinking for more than two years, Biles later noticed some problems: it was getting harder to sleep, less and less hair, and his body was further weakened.
After a while, he suddenly found that he was young, and he had actually become much older, like an old man in his twilight years...
These discoveries, not only did not make Byers stop, but made him feel that he had drunk too little to appear these characteristics.
In 1930, Byers' symptoms worsened. His jaw bones had melted, and the bones of many parts of his body had melted together, in addition to being skinny and could not bear to look directly.
Only then did he suddenly realize that he should have drunk too much radium water to get to the point where he is today. However, it was too late, and he died in great pain soon after.
The family was very afraid of what happened to Byers, and made a special coffin for him before burying it deeply.
30 years later, when a professor was studying the properties of radium, he thought of Byers and dug him up. The professor found that even after 30 years, Byers' bones were still feverish, and the bones were not cold.
There is also radium in nuclear wastewater, which means that when Japan's nuclear wastewater spreads around the world, everyone is likely to become the next Byers.
epilogue
After years of research, scientists have discovered that radium has a half-life of 1620 years, and its radioactivity can cause DNA breakage and even change a person's genetic inheritance.
That is to say, after being affected by radium, human bones still contain radiation more than 1,000 years later, causing adverse effects on the surrounding area.
It's enough to imagine what the world will be like when Japan's nuclear sewage pollutes the world.
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