[ RadSafe ] howard Long - Fly for radiation hormesis!

[John Jacobus]

Dr. Long,
I think it is interesting that you promote radiation
hormesis, but do little to increase your own exposure
over the long term.

--- howard long <hflong at pacbell.net> wrote:

> John,
>   Thank you for the fine-tuning (0.002 rem/chest
> x-ray over 0.001rem).
>    
>   My 3 sacks of KCl are here in my consultation
> room, 6' away, not close enough or active enough
> (double background at contact) to do much good. My
> wife doesn't want them replacing the mattress (nor
> do I).
>    
>   On them is the belt with thorium welding rods
> giving a hormetic dose of over 0.5 rem/yr - if I
> were to wear it, but it is too much trouble (heavy
> and bulky).
> 
>   I am promoting an essential trace energy
> (hormesis) experiment by Raabe et al at Carlsbad
> Caverns or LLNL Whole Body Counting Chamber
> (expensively very low background rad.) or in an
> enlarged lead brick whole body counting chamber like
> Helgeson Nuclear uses commercially.
>    
>   Howard Long
>   
> John Jacobus <crispy_bird at yahoo.com> wrote:
>   Dr. Long,
> The effective dose of AP chest x-ray for an adult is
> about 2 mrem (0.002 rem)
> http://hps.org/documents/meddiagimaging.pdf
> 
> Are you still sitting on your bags of KCl ice
> melting
> salt? I would expect the background exposure rate to
> be higher. 
> 
> --- howard long wrote:
> 
> > Numbers, Reuven? The airport screen has been said
> > here to be less than a chest x-ray (~0.001 rem?)
> My
> > counter here says 0.00001 rem/hr.background. 
> > 
> > Viva 10x USA background radiation for better
> > health!
> > 
> > Howard Long MD MPH (epidemiology and statistics.
> > 
> > 

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On Nov. 26, 1942, President Roosevelt ordered nationwide gasoline 
rationing, beginning December 1.   

-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com

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