[ RadSafe ] Dose to Mae Keane may be kilorads!

[John Jacobus]

Jim,
Obvously this was not suppressed very well as everyone
seems to know about it.  Maybe a better phase would be
"achived due to lack of funds."  Of course, it makes
better press when you can say that there is a
conspiracy to cover things up.  That is what the
anti-nuclear people do all the time.

--- "Muckerheide, Jim  (CDA)"
<Jim.Muckerheide at state.ma.us> wrote:

> Actually, the summary of the scientific studies is
> Bob Rowland's "Radium
> in Humans" pub'd by ANL, home of the terminated and
> suppressed Center
> for Human Radiobiology following Robley Evans'
> retirement in 1970.  See
> my msg to the group:
> http://www.vanderbilt.edu/radsafe/9907/msg00152.html
> 
> 
> This book lists every radium dial painter case
> followed by the CHR,
> suppressed by DOE starting after the 1983 Health
> Physics Supplement 1
> issue on the 1981 Lake Geneva WI int'l conference
> that confirmed the
> lack of adverse effects in studies in the U.S. and
> other countries.
> 
> (If you want to use our links to sources, change
> "cnts.wpi.edu" to
> "www.radscihealth.org" in the urls.)
> 
> See also a summary by Bob Rowland (with a very
> interesting plot of all
> the dial painters by systemic intake vs. year of
> entry into the dial
> painting industry) at:
> http://www.rerowland.com/dial_painters.htm 
> 
> Regards, Jim Muckerheide
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl 
> > [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On Behalf Of
> Alex J. 
> > Grosso, Health Physicist
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 12:32 PM
> > To: parthasarathy k s
> > Cc: RADSAFE; Susan Gawarecki
> > Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Dose to Mae Keane may be
> kilorads!
> > 
> > 
> > There was a very good book published recently
> about the 
> > problems these 
> > girls experienced:
> > 
> > Radium Girls, Women and Industril Health Reform,
> 1910-1935 by Claudia 
> > Clark
> > , published 1997 by University of North Carolina
> Press.
> > 
> > It can be purchased through Barnes & Nobles.  Not
> much detail 
> > on dose but 
> > a lot on their experiences.
> > 
> > Alex
> > 
> > 
> > Alex J. Grosso, Jr.
> > Health Physicist
> > grosso at u.washington.edu
> > bigboys at whidbey.net
> > 206-616-5564
> > 
> > "Laughter is the Best Weapon" - Roger Rabbit
> > 
> > On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, parthasarathy k s wrote:
> > 
> > > Prof R D Evans published a review of the doses
> to those who 
> > had significant intakes of radium as dial painters
> (I can 
> > locate the paper; it was in the Health Physics
> journal). The 
> > doses were of the order of hundreds of rads that
> too 
> > contributed  by alpha particles from the decay
> products of 
> > radium;a few must have received kilorads! The
> poineering work 
> > done in USA by two groups in Argonne and
> Massachusettes laid 
> > the foundation stone for internal dosimetry of
> bone seeking 
> > radionuclides such as Strontium-90, plutonium-239
> etc.
> > >
> > > The work is often projected to indicate evidence
> against 
> > LNT concept.
> > >
> > > Can any one in the list provide more about the
> human side 
> > of the tragic experience of those who suffered
> radium 
> > poisoning. It appears that the first victim sued
> the 
> > employer, got compensation; most of it went to the
> 
> > lawyers.(It was probably the first case of this
> kind).
> > >
> > > I am keen to get details about how many victims
> were part 
> > of the internal contamination study which went on 
> for 
> > decades. Can any one provide appropriate
> references?
> > >
> > > 

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

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