RE: fallout vs reactor emissions

[Rosen_Jerry <rosen@radsafe.pitt.edu>]

Not necessarily so. Here's another explanation. Some children consume less
calcium than recommended and tharefore use strontium more efficiently than
the norm. This results in high uptake and incorporation into the teeth.


According to my friends at the Tooth fairy Project here's the answer to one
of
your questions:

> Q. How do you differentiate Sr90 from bomb tests and from reactor
emissions?

> A. You can't.  However, if you find (like we have) that there has been
> virtually no change in Sr90 levels for children born in the early 1980s,
late
> 1980s, and early 1990s, it's got to be something other than old bomb test
> fallout decaying.  The only other answer is reactor emissions.
>

Norm
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