[ RadSafe ] Sr-90 in Maple Syrup, Ra-226 in mineral waters, Cs-137 in woodash, etc. was: Re: Re. Tritium found near VT Yankee (panic time!)

Thu Sep 15 17:44:00 CDT 2011

RADSAFErs,

Now Chris Busby has revealed that he not only is a raman spectroscopist, a radiation protection professional, an epidemiologist, etc. etc. but he is also a world class chemist!!!!!

He has already once stated that Sr-90 is bound to DNA and and damages it. I was very surprised that there was no outcry on RADSAFE on this ridiculous statement. Also here we have claims like "there is ample evidence in the literature....", "powerful genotoxic effects ...." and "has been ascribed (in the literature)..." without giving any citations. I do not know anything and until now I believed that the detrimental effects of Sr-90 are caused by the fact that Sr-90 is bound strongly to bones and then not so much the Sr-90 but the Y-90 with its high-energetic beta particles can damage bone marrow. Maybe the "literature" are those fake "journals" which are cited by Chris Busby, with him as peer reviewer. Maybe it is also in mails of the fake "European Commission" on Radiation Risks or in the famous "Journal of Irreproducable Results"! 

I will visit my doctor next week because of my soar knee and then I will ask him to explain to me the background of Chris Busby's more than peculiar behaviour like "I know everything", "I am always right", "all others are idiots", putting forward only fakes instead of facts in order to support his claims, insulting others who have excellent knowledge of the topics and good reasons to have another opinion than he has...... I have my suspicions about that. 

Mike, I know I owe you a reply, please be patient, I did not forget it. 

Best regards to all except the universal genius!

Franz

---- "Busby schrieb:
> 
> If you were a chemist, you would know that Sr90 binds strongly to DNA whereas K40 does not. There is ample evidence in the literature that Sr90 has powerful genotoxic effects compared with Cs137, and its effects have been ascribed (in the literature) to this behaviour.
> Grin
> Chris
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at agni.phys.iit.edu on behalf of Michael E. Kitto
> Sent: Thu 9/15/2011 1:20 PM
> To: radsafe at agni.phys.iit.edu
> Subject: [ RadSafe ]  Sr-90 in Maple Syrup, Ra-226 in mineral waters, Cs-137 in woodash, etc.  was: Re:  Re. Tritium found near VT Yankee 		 (panic time!)
>  
> 
> 
> I know this is not news to many readers here, but Sr-90 is still measurable
> in milk (at least by my lab), and the Sr-90 is not from Fukushima.  Maybe
> we should ban milk consumption by children  <grin>;  after all they are
> drinking hundreds of gallons during childhood.  And just think of how much
> K-40 (1300 pCi/L) that the milk contains !! <grin again>.   One of my goals
> before retirement is to show, based on 50 yrs of environmental measurement,
> the absurdity of claims, such as with the Tooth Fairy Project.  I'd reveal
> how, but I don't want to play my hand openly here.
> 
> If I recall, in addition to the wood ash, dried solid waste sludge is
> scattered on fields also.  I've analyzed some, it is nasty from all angles.
> 
> Lastly, if VT politicians read some of the annual environmental
> surveillance reports coming out of states (DOH or DEP) across the US,
> they'd realize H-3 is detectable (our MDL is <100 pCi/L) nearly everywhere,
> and its not from VT Yankee.  There are huge sources/emitters of
> environmental H-3, and they are commercial companies (e.g., self-luminous
> exit signs) not NPPs.
> 
>  My personal viewpoints.
>  Michael Kitto, PhD
>  Nuclear Chemistry Laboratory, NYS DOH
> 
> 
> >-- Sr-90 in commercial VT maple syrup due to bomb testing,
> >-- or Ra-226 in commercial VT bottled waters due to God & the Big Bang
> >-- or Cs-137 due to bomb testing [ present in 10,000 or so cubic meters of
> >ash from small VT wood burning power plants] at levels up to 9,000 or so
> >pCi/kg ash [300+  Bq/kg ash] being spread on home gardens and on large
> >commercial organic farming co-op farms in Northeastern Vermont, on the
> >table, as it were,  for honest evaluation.
> >
> >It's totally amusing [on a certain level] that stores like Whole Foods  or
> >other Organic food product retailers are almost consistently strongly
> >anti-nuclear power, and against food irradiation but are selling Organic
> >produce being fertilized with wood ash with elevated levels of Cs-137 from
> >nuclear test fallout. Organic food and organic product sales is now a $27
> >billion a year market in the US. How much radioactive wood ash is used as
> >fertilizer in organic farming to replenish depleted potassium, and how
> >would many consumers like to know woodash spread on the fields where their
> >crops are grown contain elevated levels of Cs-137 [and Sr-90]? I doubt
> >Organic food consumers would be terribly thrilled with knowing this fact.
> >
> >How fast would VT agencies or politicians be to criticize a trivial level
> >of H-3 in river water with essentially zero dose implications, or in a
> >trivial amount of groundwater flowing into the CT river,  if  applying the
> >same standards to commercial products in their State were put under the
> >same microscope? It would be fascinating to witness politicians and
> >certain State agencies scramble to minimize the significance of the above
> >sources of nuclear test and natural radiation exposure from their
> >commercial products if the public knew what they were consuming.
> >
> >Stewart Farber, MS Public Health
> >
> >Farber Medical Solutions, LLC
> >Bridgeport, CT 06604
> >SAFarber at optonline.net
> >203-441-8433
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