FW: [radiation_safety] radiation*

["Neil, David M" <neildm@id.doe.gov>]

I started getting messages from this group at egroups that I don't recall
subscribing to.  I read the member list and noticed a few familiar RadSafe
names.  Did anyone 'here' actually sign up for this or did we get
'e-kidnapped' :-)

Read the message, it's amusing in its way.  Bear in mind that this was
posted by the listowner of an English language oriented list.

Dave Neil		neildm@id.doe.gov

		"Be careful about reading health books -- you might die from
a misprint."  --   MARK TWAIN

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	drgbltd@spb.cityline.ru [SMTP:drgbltd@spb.cityline.ru]
> Sent:	Monday, June 05, 2000 6:46 AM
> To:	radiation_safety@egroups.com
> Subject:	[radiation_safety] radiation*
> 
> Copyrited by Yaroslav (DRGB Company) drgbltd@spb.cityline.ru
> Radioactive radiation mean electromagnetic and corpuscular rays, 
> which let out by radionuclides. Corpuscular radiation is a flux of 
> disintegration products of parent's nucleuses: alpha particles,
> beta 
> particles, derbies of nucleus and neutrons and also products of 
> discharge of excited daughter nucleuses: gamma and X-rays. 
> Radioactive radiations interact with biologic objects and particulary 
> with human body. Radiation put on skin, percolate inside of body and 
> affect to biologic cells with change and fracture of biologic 
> molecules of which cells are consist. As a result the disbolism and 
> genetic mutations (change of daughters cells molecular structure) has 
> place. For people, it may be a reason of illnesses or death. That 
> says also in http://www.anzwers.net/free/gxo/radioact.htm 
> An ability of several radionuclides to collect in tissues of people, 
> animals, plants is extremely dangerous. Radionuclides percolate in 
> alive tissues with gases, liquids and aerosols, translocate with 
> blood and so far precipitate in members and tissues. For example, 
> radioactive long-lived isotope strontium-90 is similar to calcium, 
> which is necessary for building bones of people and animals. Sr-90 is 
> more active element, so it displace Ca and postpone in bones. As Sr-
> 90 is radioactive element so gamma and X-rays, which Sr-90 let out, 
> it destroy osteal brain. It leads to extremely dangerous illness 
> leukemia - osteal brain give up to develop red bloody cells. 
> This 
> illness is incurable till now.   
> Also the same activity has radioactive isotopes K-40 and Cs-137. 
> Those elements are alkaline metals, they are similar to Na, which 
> include in salt (NaCl), which is too necessary to all alive. So those 
> radionuclides displace Na and enter in a process of metabolism, and 
> postpone in tissues and members.
> It's many of such examples. But we will mention about it in other 
> headings.
> Some another isotopes look at http://www.britannica.com/ (then 
> enter "isotope" keyword). Isotope types 
> http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/krubin/isolab.html
> If you don't understand any terms look here: 
> http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/EDUCATE/GLOSSARY/index.html 
>    Copyrited by Yaroslav (DRGB Company) drgbltd@spb.cityline.ru
> 
> 
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