[ RadSafe ] The Demon Metal or The Gospel According to Chris Busby

Sat Jan 4 16:15:41 CST 2014

All,

Here's what, I believe, Mr. Hess is looking for:

(1)  http://rpd.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/05/28/rpd.ncs013.abstract. The concluding line of the abstract is "The proposal is shown generally to be based on sound physics, but overall the impact on human health is expected to be negligible."

(2) http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2009/09/23/rsif.2009.0300.full.  Here the authors conclude "We found that although the dose enhancement is significant, of the order of 1-10, it is considerably smaller than that suggested previously."

(3) Dr. Busby has more here: http://environmentalarmageddon.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/dr-chris-busby.pdf including a response to (2) above.

There might be other information floating around out there (I have a vague recollection of a US national laboratory report on the topic.), but I haven't been keeping up.

I hope this helps.

Happy New Year,
Jerry

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Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] The Demon Metal or The Gospel According to Chris Busby

Hi, Dan,

Thanks for the informative link. I sometimes worry about Wikipedia articles where I don't know enough to really judge.

By Busby's conjecture, the uranium would have about 7.77 times the "damaging power" through the concentration of gamma rays in the DNA due to the ratio of atomic numbers squared: 92 vs 33.

Of course, we need something to go with uranium like "Arsenic and Old Lace" <smile>.

Cheers,

Richard

On 2014-01-04 2:57 AM, Dan McCarn wrote:
> As I recall, Arsenic and Uranium are about equal in crustal abundance.  
> Too bad he doesn't discuss the carcinogenic, mutagenic, etc.  
> properties of arsenic.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenic_toxicity
>
>
> Dan ii
>
> Dan W McCarn, Geologist
> 108 Sherwood Blvd
> Los Alamos, NM 87544-3425

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