[ RadSafe ] Makhijani picocuries (IEER letter to EPA)

[Otto G. Raabe]

>August 4, 2005

The Makhijani report seems and Mr Salsman both show lack of understanding 
of radiobiology. Plutonium in bone is about 14 times more effective than 
radium-226 in causing cancer or other untoward effects. The U.S. human 
radium lifetime studies of over 2000 people exposed the radium show that no 
person whose lifetime bone dose was less 200 Sv developed bone cancer or other


Prof. Otto G. Raabe, Ph.D., CHP
Center for Health & the Environment
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