AW: [ RadSafe ] New Your City Council meets on detectors

Tue Jan 29 16:30:41 CST 2008

Mike,

Thank you for this contribution. When the topic first came up on RADSAFE I
intended to comment, but then I thought I do not want to cause Syd Levine
unnecessary work to copy his usual comment that I am anti-US and send it
again....... But now I cannot resist any more. 

I do not know who Peter Vallone is and for me it is not really clear,
whether the last sentence of the article "After all, if you let research
scientists and community groups do their jobs, the terrorists will have
already won." is an original citation of Peter Vallone or it is a cynical
comment by the journalist who wrote the article.

The problem I face and which I originally intended to post on RADSAFE is the
following: 

On my travel I usually take a small and simple doserate meter with me.
Especially on my last trip to the Southwest where I was going to visit the
Trinity Site and former as well as operating uranium mines and uranium ore
processing plants. And sure it is funny to see the doserate rising when the
plane is climbing. I always use the (of course not accurate) doserates to
demonstrate, that people use airplanes extensively, but are afraid of the
lowest pSv from a nuclear power plant. On most of my visits to the USA I
head directly to the Southwest via Atlanta, which is the easiest connection
from Austria. But what to do in case I would travel via New York and such a
legislation would be in force? Would I be searched for such instruments and
if my doserate meter would be found I would go to jail or face some other
heavy punishment? Anybody able to explain what I would have to do if this
legislation was in force?

I have only one final word for comment: "Paranoia". Syd, now you can copy
your standard message to RADSAFE about me. 

Best regards to all, especially those who had been able to keep a sense of
humor in these times so difficult for anything radioactive!

Franz

Franz Schoenhofer, PhD
MinRat i.R.
Habicherg. 31/7
A-1160 Wien/Vienna
AUSTRIA

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] Im Auftrag
von Brennan, Mike (DOH)
Gesendet: Dienstag, 29. Jänner 2008 22:38
An: radsafe at radlab.nl
Betreff: [ RadSafe ] New Your City Council meets on detectors

As we discussed earlier:

 http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0803,thompson,78873,2.html?c=1#comments

>From the article:

>After an hour of this, poor Peter Vallone looked shell-shocked. He had
planned to fast-track this legislation-in fact, the law was supposed to have
been voted on last week-but that was before the critics had heard about it.
As the opposition mounted, Vallone pulled the proposed legislation just
before the meeting's end and agreed to give it a second look. "When I was
first given a briefing only weeks ago, the potential problems did occur to
me," he said in a later interview. "But the extent of the opposition, on
such short notice, was a bit surprising." 

In other words, it although he recognized that it was a bad piece of
legislation, he was willing to inflict it, as long as he didn't have to
justify it personally.  

>But don't think Vallone has given up or anything. He and his colleagues
will try to accommodate all the concerns when they redraft the bill, he
said, but one way or another, the cops are going to have this new power. "No
one's going to be completely happy in the end," Vallone said, "but I think
the police department gave some very impressive testimony on the stand, and
also expressed a willingness to listen to concerns." 

-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On Behalf
Of Rainer.Facius at dlr.de
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 7:28 AM
To: mccartmj at michigan.gov; radsafe at radlab.nl
Subject: AW: [ RadSafe ] Drug that may prevent radiation injury

1) DARPA is not known for funding bogus science.

2) The crux indeed is whether the antioxidant, radical scavenging activity
will help in a post-exposure scenario, i.e., when most or all of the initial
radicals are gone long ago.

Dr. Rainer Facius
German Aerospace Center
Institute of Aerospace Medicine
Linder Hoehe
51147 Koeln
GERMANY
Voice: +49 2203 601 3147 or 3150
FAX:   +49 2203 61970

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] Im Auftrag
von Michael McCarty
Gesendet: Dienstag, 29. Januar 2008 15:10
An: radsafe at radlab.nl
Betreff: [ RadSafe ] Drug that may prevent radiation injury

For your enlightenment, entertainment, and any discussion that occur:

http://www.media.rice.edu/media/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=10512

Feds fund study of drug that may prevent radiation injury Defense department
funds study of nanotube-based drug made at Rice

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