It recently has been alleged that "slow cookers" in waste areas produce radioisotopes that undergo beta decay that in turn produces ozone that in turn degrades the immune system thus promoting illness. Under the rules of science, it is incumbent on the claimant to produce evidence that the claim has merit aside from the fact that each step is theoretically possible. A fertile imagination is useful but it is not proof.

In the earlier discussion of criticality, it was shown why the conditions in waste pits was not conducive to critical events especially "slow cookers" which require a fine balance in the physical characteristics of the "reactor". Further, the gamma radiation above the waste areas is not characteristic of an on-going nuclear reaction but rather of longer lived decay products. Also most of the beta radiation would be produces below the soil surface and would not penetrate into the atmosphere. Any ozone, produced beneath the soil, would undoubtedly decompose to oxygen due the instability and reactivity of the ozone molecule. In addition, the heavy metals found in waste pits are a catalyst for ozone decomposition. The same is true of any ozone produced by any mechanism at depth in the waste pits.

For a source of ozone in the atmosphere aside from natural sources, one is left with the small amount of noble gases produced (assuming a waste-pit, nuclear reaction ever occurs) and escaped from the soil. There is no evidence of their presence that should be the case if they were to generate enough ozone to significantly increase the back ground levels due to combustion processes and natural sources such as lightning. Further the rate of ozone production at a point source would have to be very large to substantially affect a large turbulent air mass subject to a wide range of distributed ozone sources, as is the world's atmosphere.

Lastly, there is no evidence that exceedingly small increases in ozone level suppresses the immune system in a manner to produce the wide range of symptoms found.

It would appear that there is an ozone disconnection.

Have you changed the ozone filter in your laser printer lately?