RE: Power Plant Pollution Linked to 30,000 Premature Deaths

["Allen, Tim" <TAllen@jaguar.middlebury.edu>]

Just MHO, but I would think an "insult-free" environment would be
impossible, and a greatly reduced insult environment would be have the
effect of reducing lifespan, due to the fact that the immune response and
DNA repair mechanisms would not be stimulated.  Therefore, I would expect
that the effect of any insult would be increased. 

		Tim Allen
		Senior Laboratory Technician / Radiation Safety Technician
		601A Bicentennial Hall
		Middlebury College
		Middlebury, VT 05753

> ----------
> From: 	Bernard L Cohen
> Reply To: 	radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
> Sent: 	Friday, October 27, 2000 10:01 AM
> To: 	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: 	Re: Power Plant Pollution Linked to 30,000 Premature Deaths
> 
> 
> On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, William Prestwich wrote:
> 
> > Dear Bernie
> > 	Wouldn't the 3-9% figure only apply to that fraction of the
> > annual death rate which is both premature and not attributable to
> > accidents?
> 
> 	--The 3-9% is the estimate of the Harvard group, applying to all
> deaths. It is their number, not mine. But it seems plausible to me.
> 	Accidents cause less than 5% of all deaths. I would think that the
> great majority of all deaths are premature relative to what would be
> experienced in an insult-free environment, but that is just my judgement.
> 
> 
> Bernard L. Cohen
> Physics Dept.
> University of Pittsburgh
> Pittsburgh, PA 15260
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