[ RadSafe ] Don't go swimming in the Pac. ocean

[Dlawrencenewyork]

Franz, I think Mike's point wasn't to reference potential body burden, but rather to illustrate the trivial levels of activity involved. Your illustration of the potential fallacy of this argument is well placed amongst us, but perhaps not applicable to scenarios involving the radio-illiterati.  A fine example of how hyperbole can cut both ways!

Best Regards
David Lawrence

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On Feb 22, 2012, at 1:02 PM, <franz.schoenhofer at chello.at> wrote:

> Mike, sorry to disappoint you, but comparison of activities and even more of activity concentrations between Cs137 and K-40 does not make any sense. Since K-40 is homeostatically  controlled in the body the dose caused by additional K-40 from ingestion is clearly zero, the external gamma dose from it is the same, independently of the Cs-137 dose. (Surprisingly I never noticed any dose reported from other radionuclides like Cs-134 and all the "menue" of fission products and of course transuranics! This had been done in Europe during and after the Chernobyl accident.)
> 
> This has been discussed exensively before on RADSAFE.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Franz
> 
> 
> 
> ---- "Brennan schrieb:
>> It would have been nice if they had compared the activity from Cs-137 to
>> the activity from K-40 in the same samples.  
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu
>> [mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Steven Dapra
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 5:36 PM
>> To: radsafe at agni.phys.iit.edu
>> Subject: [ RadSafe ] Don't go swimming in the Pac. ocean
>> 
>> Feb. 21
>> 
>>    Minute amount of Cs-137 found in Pacific Ocean.
>> 
>> http://news.yahoo.com/radiation-detected-400-miles-off-japanese-coast-19
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>>    (Huge link.  I hope it works.)
>> 
>> Steven Dapra
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