[ RadSafe ] Citation requested for "How tough is it tobuild..." C. Bradt

Sun Feb 13 18:22:34 CST 2011

Dear Jeff:

I have no comment about the radon issue... having worked on uranium deposits
in France, USA (New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Texas), Czech Republic
(Central Moravia, Upper Bohemia), Slovenia, Slovakia, Kazakhstan, Brazil...
and published an international database on uranium deposits...

No comment... Tear out my fingernails, but no comment!

However, I think I will go visit Franz and sit in a warm spring radon spa in
Austria to have my cell walls massaged...

AND, I do have a new dog - I first named him Jacque Riant Malinois (Laughing
Jacque), but later named him Radon, who is being trained to detect, of
course, radon.  I'm using a ZnS nasal spray to enhance the scintillating
fluorescence... 

Note that due to the stochastic effects of the alpha emitters, the nose
scintillation appears to be digitally airbrushed.  The drawback is that he
has to work mainly at night.  I trained him first to detect sulfides, but
the nasal spray causes saturation of sulfides in his nose...

Dan ii

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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Jeff Terry
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2011 19:13
To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Citation requested for "How tough is it tobuild..."
C. Bradt

One can't forget about that evil Radon as well. Looks like there is lots of
it around Niagara Falls. 
http://www.epa.gov/radon/pdfs/zonemapcolor.pdf

All that Niagara Falls radon must have been formed by that atmospheric
testing as well since it would be difficult for anyone to have transported
it all from Gabon. 

Wait a minute, while I have not calculated the exact amount of Radon that
could have been formed due to all of the atmospheric testing, looking at the
map it appears that not enough nuclear tests were conducted to account for
the quantity of Radon found in the U. S. Maybe we should report this to
homeland security, if radioactive materials are only found in Africa someone
must be transporting Radon from Africa to the US. Would that not qualify as
a terrorist attack?

Oh the humanity, if only radioactive materials were natural in places other
than the previous Belgian Congo. 

Jeff

Jeff Terry
Asst. Professor of Physics
Life Science Bldg Rm 166
Illinois Institute of Technology
3101 S. Dearborn St. 
Chicago IL 60616
630-252-9708
terryj at iit.edu

On Feb 12, 2011, at 7:14 PM, Steven Dapra wrote:

> Feb. 12
> 
> Lou:
> 
>        Give it up.  Are we all dying of cancer that was caused by
atmospheric testing?  Is or has anyone?
> 
>        Permit me to inform you that uranium (for example) is found in
other countries than the former Belgian Congo.  It's in the US, in New
Mexico, near Grants.  Lots of U around Grants.
> 
> Steven Dapra
> 
> 
> At 11:52 AM 2/12/2011, you wrote:
>> Dear Mr. Bradt:
>> 
>> Are you referring to the open atmospheric tests in general, or do you
have
>> a specific citation for the comment you left below ("thousands of
>> radioactive  dispersal devices tested in the atmosphere")?
>> Were these devices being tested in specific to gauge their potential for
>> the spread of contamination or, as a general outcome of the tests
conducted
>> between the dates provided?
>> 
>> At what point in specific would "deadly" be an actual reference word used
>> to accurately denote a certain level of contamination? Any numbers?
>> 
>> "Too broad to be effective" -- in the atmosphere? What about ground born
>> contact (ingestion, inhalation, etc) from fallout deposition, rainout
etc...?
>> Was the end game intention of testing to be "effective" at creating a
>> health  hazard? Or, am I taking this out of your context. Would you
please
>> explain?
>> 
>> A "pun"? -- I don't think that DHS is taking this potential danger as a
>> pun. Do you actually think so?
>> 
>> "The level of disruption created would be a function of the clean-up
levels
>> and disposal
>> requirements likely to be imposed by politicians and their  toadies, not
by
>> the actual health hazards posed."
>> 
>> Do "politicians and their toadies" include all regulators and employees
of
>> the aforementioned within a political system such as say: state level
>> "health" and or "environmental" departments and their employees? Or, is
there
>> some sort of a segregation that I'm not aware of?  ;)
> 
> [edit]
> 
>> And, since  these are not natural materials to the planet at all except
>> perhaps in the  previous Belgian Congo, is this a good thing in your
mind?
>> 
>> Any clarification(s) as an employee of NYS DoH would be greatly
>> appreciated.
>> ==
>> 
>> lou  ricciuti,
>> researcher, author,
>> Niagara Falls - Lewiston - Porter, New  York,
>> * "Los Alamos East"
> 
> 
> 
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