Re: Rosalie Bertell's Latest Tome on "Permissable (sic) Dose Standards

["Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe@ucdavis.edu>]

November 27, 2000
Davis, CA

Rosalie Bertell's somewhat strange essay reaches the conclusion: "The US
appears to have used its 1952 estimates of permissible doses for nuclear
workers for the DU exposure in the Gulf War." Although this is nonsense,
the chemical toxicity of DU is orders of magnitude more important that the
potential radiation from internal exposure to DU. Is she referring to
external exposure?

Otto 
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