Re: Thai radiation victim: Frightened residents & cremation rite

["J. J. Rozental" <joseroze@netvision.net.il>]

     This brought me to mind the same situation in Goiania to burry the two
first victims. In Goiania the situation was not so pacific due the
circumstances and I needed to be protected surrounded by the police, while
informing the population in the cemetery.

However, in Goiania, people were afraid due the contamination of the victims
that was not the case in Thailand. Lesson learned: Again (and still in the
future) population does not distinguish between external exposure and
contamination.

Jose Julio Rozental
joseroze@netvision.net.il
Israel

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----- Original Message -----
From: Bjorn Cedervall <bcradsafers@hotmail.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 12:23 PM
Subject: Thai radiation victim: Frightened residents & cremation rite


> The text below is the first part of an article in Bangkok Post, 14 March.
>
> Bjorn Cedervall  bcradsafers@hotmail.com
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> March 14, 2000
> Frightened residents force family to shift cremation rite
> Locals disregard silent geiger counter
>
> Anchalee Kongrut
> Relatives of a victim who died from cobalt-60 radiation last week called
off
> cremation rites yesterday after objections from people living near the wat
> where the rites were to be held.
> Leaders of the community near Wat Rang Bua, Thon Buri, were afraid the
> cremation would spread radiation sickness among them.
>
> About 1,200 people in Soi Phet Kasem 23, Phasi Charoen district, signed a
> petition demanding the rites for Niphon Phanthukan be held elsewhere
despite
> assurances from the Office of Atomic Energy for Peace that there was no
> danger.
>
> ...
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