[ RadSafe ] Myth Busters and Irradiated Cockroaches - Jan 30

[Brunkow, Ward]

Well, we've always known this. The insects and reptiles will inherit the
world in a full scale nuclear exchange. This is a classic thought in the
Army's "Biological Effects of Nuclear Weapons" Manual, as I used in the
NBC Officers course. Any Jr. Health Physicist knows the "graded
approach" with radiation exposure or contamination and the effect it has
on a living organism. Us humans are about as "perishable" as it gets. I
guess the layperson on the street would find this interesting, that is
what the show is designed for I guess, not us rad geeks.

W. G. (Ward) Brunkow
DOE WIPP


-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On
Behalf Of Flanigan, Floyd
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 5:35 AM
To: Flood, John; Jeff Leavey; Radsafe
Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] Myth Busters and Irradiated Cockroaches - Jan
30

The comment was meant to be humorous, in reference to the previous
thread on Hormesis and "nay-sayers". Sorry if the meaning was lost.

Floyd

-----Original Message-----
From: Flood, John [mailto:FloodJR at nv.doe.gov] 
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 3:18 PM
To: Flanigan, Floyd; Jeff Leavey; Radsafe
Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] Myth Busters and Irradiated Cockroaches - Jan
30

Now, maybe I've missed out on something important about cockroaches, and
everyone know us physics majors don't hace aclue about biology, but
wouldn't a 35 year latent period be somewhat diminished in importance
for a bug with a life expectancy of a few months to a couple of years?

John R. (Bob) Flood
Radiological Health
Nevada Test Site
(702) 295-2514 
-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On
Behalf Of Flanigan, Floyd
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 11:27 AM
To: Jeff Leavey; Radsafe
Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] Myth Busters and Irradiated Cockroaches - Jan
30

Must be a reallllllly long episode. Those guys tend to be rather
thorough and with a 35 year latency period before many adverse effects
present ...

Floyd

-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On
Behalf Of Jeff Leavey
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 12:36 PM
To: Radsafe
Subject: [ RadSafe ] Myth Busters and Irradiated Cockroaches - Jan 30

Radsafers:

The Discovery Channel has posted that the "cockroach survivability
theory" episode will air January 30 at 9:00PM and then again on Jan 31
at 1:00 AM. This was announced back last October where the boys
irradiated cockroaches to see how well they'd survive nuclear war.

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-schedules/series.html?paid=1.13056.24704.391
3.x&start=70

Jeff

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Jeff Leavey
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Cornell University Environmental Health and Safety
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