Re: Radiation Safety Travel Tips

[Chris Alston <alstonc@odrge.odr.georgetown.edu>]

>Personally, I enjoyed the so called "Fountains of Youth" (slogans
>found there: "Shower only, don't drink." and "Water is good to get
>rid of your wrinkles.") on the Italian Isle of Ischia near Naples. All
>spring water show an increased level of radioactive minerals as the
>local geology is predominantly volcanic ...
>
>Perhaps you should include Austria in your Radiation Safety Travel
>Plans as well: A classical cure (10 entries for about an hour) in the
>Bad Gastein Healing Gallery (artificial cave system) gives a dose of
>230 mrem (2.3 mSv) to Spondylitis patients. A tourist can try the
>"taster-entry" (1 entry) for about US$ 22.00. The average Radon
>concentration in the cave is 43 kBq/m3 (max. 160 kBq/m3).
>Normally, about 2500 Ankylosing Spondylitis patients are treated
>per year. All physicians are wearing special radon dosimeters, they
>are allowed to work only 100 days per year inside the cave and
>when being inside the cave (to check the patients' health condition)
>most of the time they are staying within little cabins which are
>aired from outside. Applied Health Physics, I would say ... Bon
>voyage.
>
>Find out more at http://www.gasteiner-Heilstollen.com/estart.htm.
>
>Jurgen Erb, Ph.D.
>Research Associate
>Erlangen-Nuremberg University
>Institute of Medical Physics
>Krankenhausstr. 12, Rm 112
>D - 91054 Erlangen
>Germany
>
>Tel:   49-9131-85-22821
>Fax:   49-9131-85-22824
>mailto:erb@imp.uni-erlangen.de
>http://www.imp.uni-erlangen.de
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