[ RadSafe ] RE: More Fed agency promulgation of radiophobia

[Marcel Schouwenburg]

Posted on behalf of Y.C. Luan.
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Jim:

 I was busy in  preparing and attending the conferences in Mass 
University, USA  and McMASTER University in Canada, and unfortune 
suffering some sickness, but I still think I should response to your 
this massage on  more Fed agency promulgation of radiophobia, especially 
when I learned that the US is planning to have more nuclear power plants.

I think all US Fed agencies on radiation regulation should 
recognize that radiation harmful  to man was the acute radiation 
received frrm the atomic explosion in Japan. Actually there are  
no atomic bomb explosions today.The radiation people can receive 
today is chronic radiation which is recieved slowly and in low dose rate 
just same to the radiation received from the Co-60 comtaminated 
apartmnets in Taiwan. The acute radiation can be only learned from the 
data of RERF scientists studying on the Japanese Survivors who showed 
that the doses they received can easyly increse leukemia also solid 
cancers, that cause people always to fear of radiation, But In 
fact, more than 99% of the survivors received the doses in <200 mSv in 
the two atomic explosion, that could not have any excess solid cancer 
even no leukemia to the survivors.

What about the  data of chronic radiation received  by the Co-60 
contamination residents in Taiwan, though they have received quite 
high doses  by the residents are beneficial to them, no excess 
cancers,even  their sopntaneose cancers were prevented, and the chronic 
radiation is just same as radiation received by the workers in the power 
plants and public outside of the plants, only their  doses are 
smmal, but till should be benefical to the workers and public.         

I do not know why all Fed radiation regultaion concentrated the 
radaition on  acute radiation from atomic bomb explosion , never  think 
the radiation recevid slowly  and in low dose rate just in the Co-60 
contamination in Taiwan. is any body will give some advie to the  US Fed 
radiation regulation to thnk the safety this way?

Best regards

Y.C. Luan 

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    From: "Muckerheide, James" <jimm at WPI.EDU>
    To: <rad-sci-l at WPI.EDU>, <radsafe at radlab.nl>
    Subject: More Fed agency promulgation of radiophobia
    Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:43:35 -0400

    Friends,

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    Here is report of more Federal bureaucracy fostering public fear of
    radiation.  This requires the BEIR VII report to claim that any
    small amount of radiation has adverse health effects, by
    misrepresenting data, and suppressing contradictory data.

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    Our responsible industry and government authorities need to develop
    and establish the institutional basis to question these results. ?It
    was disheartening to see Homeland Security abandon its conclusions
    on protecting the public based on radiation health effects evidence
    to 'guidance?from EPA, NCRP et al., including FDA and as here, ATSDR.)

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    Obviously, no credible "science?or scientists influence these results!

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    (Note: I am an Idaho Hanford 'downwinder??Moscow, 1946-49 :-)

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    Regards, Jim Muckerheide

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BoiseWeekly: Lesson One: Don't Say "Fallout Shmallout"

 

[BoiseWeekly]??? 

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AUGUST 24, 2005

 

BY NICHOLAS COLLIAS

 

Last year, Idaho leapt to the forefront of the debate over

whether the federal government should compensate former victims

of nuclear fallout from radioactive tests and emissions (BW,

"The Low Use Segment," November 17, 2004). And while the

government has still not accepted full responsibility-at least

by way of compensation-in heavily effected states like Idaho,

Wyoming and Washington, at least it's trying to help doctors

deal with its mess. 

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The federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry,

part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has just

released a new video instructing doctors on how to 
combat the

mental, as well as physical, ailments expressed by nuclear

downwinders. Titled Hanford: The Psychological Dimensions of

Radiation Exposure, the 30-minute video concedes that large

radioactive releases did occur throughout the US-and that

patients and doctors alike struggle against the vagueness of

what, exactly, resulted from that exposure. 

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"Both the doctor and the patient are grappling with the unknown

here," says Dr. Pam Tucker of the, ATSDR in the video. "You have

an exposure that may lead to a health effect, and may not lead

to a health effect." 

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Recent studies at Chernobyl and the Marshall Islands have shown

that exposure to radioactive iodine leads to an increased risk

of developing thyroid diseases. Idaho has a unique history of

being double-dosed with radiation, both from Hanford and from

nuclear test explosions at the Nevada Test Site, making the

video essential viewing for doctors and downwinders statewide.

To watch it, visit http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov

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    ?Copyright 2005, BoiseWeekly

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