[ RadSafe ] Busby is a waste of bandwidth

ROY HERREN royherren2005 at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 31 23:36:49 CDT 2011


Doug,

    I've heard similar stories about the wives of Asbestos worker.  The wives 
came down with Asbestosis even though they had never been occupational Asbestos 
workers.
 Roy Herren 




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From: Douglas Minnema <douglasm at DNFSB.GOV>
To: radsafe at agni.phys.iit.edu; sjd at swcp.com
Sent: Mon, October 31, 2011 9:30:57 AM
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Busby is a waste of bandwidth

Just for perspective, the exact same exposure route used to occur with beryllium 
workers and their families, but with completely different effects.  The wives 
were coming down with chronic beryllium disease from washing the husbands' 
clothes.

If I recall, figuring this out and stopping it was one of Merrill Eisenbud's big 
successes in the early 1950's.

Doug Minnema, PhD, CHP

>>> Steven Dapra <sjd at swcp.com> 10/29/11 12:02 AM >>>
Oct. 28

        Thank you for pointing this out about uranium mill 
workers.  Some 15 y. ago I worked on the UMTRA project.  One of the 
employees told me her father her father worked in the mill.  He would 
come at night covered in yellowcake dust, and now, at age 
approximately 80, he was as healthy as could be.

        The daughter was in perfect health too, and had no birth 
defects or genetic deficiencies.  Perhaps U is not a genotoxin after all. . . .

Steven Dapra


At 04:59 PM 10/28/2011, you wrote:
>Dear Radsafers,
>
>I am so fed up with this thread and Busby's weird new weapon coverup 
>fantasies. It is a waste of time.
>
>Uranium is present in all soils, at something like 3 ppm +/- a 
>factor of 10 or more.
>
>Uranium mill workers over the last half century don't show genetic 
>problems and I bet they have ingested / inhaled similar or indeed 
>much more than Chris's subjects.
>
>DU *must* be toxicologically identical to nonD-U.
>
>Let's have a bit of common sense here...
>
>Can the moderator please call a halt to this pointless debate??
>
>
>Mark Sonter
>
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