Re: K-40 Thread

[Franz Schoenhofer <schoenho@via.at>]

At 12:35 06.04.2000 -0500, you wrote:
>	Does everyone realize that the amount of potassium in our bodies
>is hemostatically controlled? If you eat more than the body's control
>level, it is discharged as waste. If you don't eat enough, it is good for
>your health to eat more. Thus your health is not harmed by eating more
>potassium, and in most cases, your radiation dose is not affected. 
>
>Bernard L. Cohen

Yes, this is correct. The thread started anyway with mentioning the KCl use
for thawing ice and the storing of tons of it in public places. This would
result in a radiation dose from external irradiation as it was described by
one fellow RADSAFEr. This should not be mixed up with doses from ingestion,
which Bernard Cohen has clearly described as not existent. Another question
is of course the external irradiation of workers blending the KCl with NaCl. 

May I mention my personal experience with "salt light": You have to use
about twice the amount of this salt to achieve the salty impression - which
does not reduce the amount of NaCl taken up and therefore has no positive
health effects....

Regards,

Franz


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