Pointed out Japan because it is going to dump Nuclear waste in Ocean soon.

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According to a new study by a team of scientists at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, relatively high exposure to background radiation may actually lead to healthier lives. What they found was surprising. Those who lived in areas where background radiation levels were higher, across genders, experienced significantly lower rates of lung, pancreatic, colon and rectal cancers.



"Here, we show that life expect ancy, the most integrative index of population health, was ap proximately 2.5 years longer in people living in areas with a rel atively high vs. low background radiation," the researchers wrote in their paper.