[ RadSafe ] How can I get more radiation

[Howard Long]

"1/8x7" Cryo- Thoriated AWS Class EWG #10"
 is all I can read on the long-sat on label  of the welding rods.
I have 5 packages of 10 under a pillow on my desk seat.
Recently to get more rads to the spleen area, I have hung them in a pillowcase 
on the back of my seat.

My PalmRad, Berkley Nucleonics model 904 (about $500 10 years ago)
at my crotch reads 0.151mR/hr,  and away, (as av background)  0.015 mRad/hr,
thus 10 x for about 1/10 of the 24 hours, doubling background for the crotch.

Howard 


On Oct 24, 2012, at 8:15 AM, "Robert Cihak" <rjcihak at gmail.com> wrote:

> Howard,
> 
> Thanks. Very interesting.
> 
> What brand and model number of welding rods do you use? My hardware store
> carries Lincoln brand, in 3 different models. Of course, the online spec
> sheets don't seem to include this information.
> 
> What instrument did you use to measure the radiation? And, at what distance
> was the instrument from the rods? etc.
> 
> Also, 15 mrad/hour background x 24 hours/day x 365 days/year = 131.4
> rads/year. 150 mrad/hour would be 1,314 rads/year. Might those units of
> measurement be microrads instead of millirads? Or, as once happened to me in
> an article that got published in the Washington Times (DC) newspaper, did
> you use the Greek letter mu (for micro 10 - 6) and have your word processor
> translate it to m (milli 10 -3)?
> 
> Robert J. Cihak, M.D.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Howard Long
> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 11:00 AM
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> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] How can I get more radiation
> 
> Theo,
> To get a Denver dose of gamma, for 5 years I sit on 40 thoriated welding
> rods 3 hours a day (at my desk, under a pillow). It registers 150 mrad/hr vs
> 15 background at my crotch.
> I bought 3 sacks of KCl to put under my bed, but my wife objected and it
> would not have given half as much, anyway.
> 
> Howard Long
> 
> 
> On Oct 17, 2012, at 7:59 AM, "Theo Richel" <theo at richel.org> wrote:
> 
>> All right so I have read the literature on LNT and hormesis and all that
> and I have decided that the benefits of low level radiation exceed the
> risks. Of course I do not know whether that works on my individual level but
> I decided that it is time to try it out and  increase my exposure to, 100
> milliSievert a year, possibly spread over multiple doses. Does anyone here
> have some practical advise how to realize that?
>> 
>> I know about Japanese gadgets like ceramic eggs ventilating radon or
> clothes with radium enriched threads. But on the Japanese site I can find
> nothing on  the quantity of radiation they produce (and I suspect that the
> Dutch government will have its own ideas on my importing these things).
>> I could  go to a radon spa, but I just read that the personnel in a Greek
> spa (Ikaria) the personnel receives 35 milliSievert per year. So I would
> need to change my job and emigrate which I do not want. And it still is far
> from the 100 milliSievert I 'need'.
>> I know that professor Luckey has a lump of ore in his home which
> irradiates him constantly (even to the point of burning him slightly he
> says). Het couldn't tell me about the dose he received that way, he wasn't
> interested in that. U do not know much of the equipment that is used for
> radiotherapy, but I suppose it is tuned to give a highly focused high dose,
> whereas for my purposes whole body low doses seems more appropriate. But
> possibly radiologists have been thinking about this.
>> 
>> Of course I am aware of the legal barriers, but I am willing to confront
> them, first I want to explore the practical side of this.
>> 
>> So I'd love to get in touch with people who have given this issue some
> thought. You can also pm me at theo at richel.org .
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Theo Richel
>> 
>> 
>> 
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