[ RadSafe ] Re: Long-lived radionuclides

[Dr. Khalid Aleissa]

I would say this is because of the wrong analogy that most people use.
Radioisotope danger wrongly correlated to the long life of this
radioisotope, i.e., the longer it exists, the danger it poses!!
 

-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On Behalf
Of jjcohen at prodigy.net
Sent: 24 October, 2006 02:33 ص
To: Fred Dawson; srp-uk at yahoogroups.com; radsafe at radlab.nl
Subject: [ RadSafe ] Re: Long-liverd radionuclides

Perhaps someone can give a rational explanation for why the long-lived
radionuclides engender such great fears--- not just among the general
public, but also among those in the technical community who should know
better. If longevity, per se, were such a special danger, why then don't
people have commensurate fears toward the stable toxic elements which will
exist forever?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Dawson" <fd003f0606 at blueyonder.co.uk>
To: <srp-uk at yahoogroups.com>; <radsafe at radlab.nl>
Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 10:13 AM
Subject: [ RadSafe ] There's nothing you can do to hurry radioactive
decay,the textbooks will tell you,but New Scientist meets a physicist who
begs to differ


> There's nothing you can do to hurry radioactive decay, the textbooks will
> tell you, but New Scientist meets a physicist who begs to differ
>
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg19225741.100-halflife-her
esy-accelerating-radioactive-decay.html
>
> FOR ALL its eureka moments, science has taught us many unpalatable lessons
> about what we are powerless to do. We can't dim the sun to remedy droughts
> or global warming. We can't stave off the ravages of time to live for
> thousands of years. And there's little we can do about radioactive waste
> from nuclear reactors that will be a health hazard for generations to
come.
> Radioactivity cannot be tamed; all we can do is bundle the waste somewhere
> safe and wait for it to decay away. So it takes some nerve to say
otherwise,
> and suggest that there are, after all, ways to speed up radioactive decay.
>
> Yet that is exactly what Claus Rolfs, a physicist at the Ruhr University
in
> Bochum, Germany, is doing. His dramatic - and controversial - claim is
that
> by encasing certain radioisotopes in metal and chilling them close to
> absolute zero, it ought ...
>
> Fred Dawson
>
> fwp_dawson at hotmail.com
>
>
>
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