Re: background vs man-made emmissions

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

> > Simple answer: comparing background vs. reactor emissions is apples vs.
> > oranges.
> >
> > Background
> > - is made up of mostly long-lived products
> > - generally disperses throughout soft tissues
> > - is something that humans have become accustomed to over millions of years.
> >
> > Reactor emissions
> > - is made up of both long-lived AND short-lived products
> > - does different things to the body (attacks thyroid cells, attacks bone/bone
> > marrow cells)
> > - is very new, only since 1945
> >
> > Thus, health effects of each will be different.

Norm,

With all due respect, the above position is absolutely ludicrous. It's 
difficult for me to comprehend anyone who uses a little common 
sense to see the folly in the argument. Radiation is radiation, and 
dose is dose. Photons, beta neutron and alpha emissions are the 
same whether they derive from natural or man-made sources. Co-
60 is emitted from a reactor, yet it too is used in therapeutic 
applications to save lives. Based on the argument above, it too 
should cause death and/or other adverse effects.

It appears to me that when an individual who is so highly charged 
and is fighting against something that they may or may not truly 
believe in, when they have some emotional event in their life, or 
something that attacks the very root of their paradigm, they resort 
to comments and arguments as you put forth. You state that this 
is the position of the Tooth fairy project. Very well. I ask you to tell 
me whether or not you subscribe to their argument as well. If you 
do, then I see no further point in debating the finer points as to 
what is real and what is not real, when it comes to determining 
which parts of the nuclear cycle may need fine tuning, which parts 
are perfectly safe, and which parts need to be changed totally.

I await your response.

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