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

Tue Jan 29 22:40:01 CST 2008

Franz,  Perhaps more than being "off," you should remove the batteries while
on the ground at JFK.  After all:  Is a doserate meter a doserate meter
without a battery?

Regards, Jim
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on 1/29/08 5:30 PM, Franz Schönhofer at franz.schoenhofer at chello.at wrote:

> 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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