[ RadSafe ] How many curies were involved in Hiroshima

[Steven Dapra]

June 21

         Note that as usual Busby does not provide citations to 
anything.  He doesn't even give a link to his own "paper."

Steven Dapra


At 02:20 PM 6/21/2011, you wrote:
>Chris,
>
>There will always be some entity that over estimates or under 
>estimates any situation. I don't recall any credible study that 
>concludes there have been any significant deaths documented in the 
>numbers you state below. Now if someone wants to include any death 
>that occurs in a geographical area as a result of Chernobyl, they 
>can make whatever conclusion that they want to. However, there is 
>absolutely no credible evidence to support this contention, even remotely.
>
>Regards,
>
>Sandy
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu 
>[mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Busby, Chris
>Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 9:45 PM
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>Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] How many curies were involved in Hiroshima
>
>
>Well, so far on the basis of death toll, you will excuse me if I say 
>Chernobyl outweighs all of these by orders of magnitude. I know you 
>guys think only a few firemen died, but this isnt so.. Alexey 
>Yablokov is right. Gogman calculated 980,000 in 1990. All the 
>studies have been done. Here is my paper on the issue.
>Cheers
>Chris

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