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Originally Posted by IamIan
...but instead the area has a higher risk of harmful effects like cancer , birth defects etc... due to the contamination of the event...
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Just a point here: the statement in the original thread was that the risk was
vastly higher. I suppose we could argue about the exact meaning of "vast" - does it mean the SF B-movie "mutants everywhere", or something less than the increased cancer risk from smoking?
The point, though, is that whatever those risks may be, they are, judging from the reports of wildlife abundance &c, less damaging than the normal activities of humans were.