Re: Depleted Uranium and Leukemia

["Bjorn Cedervall" <bcradsafers@hotmail.com>]

bcradsafers@hotmail.com writes: yada, yada, yada.

I am not sure if this was meant as a criticism of me. The crazy thing came 
from TV.

I know that we are talking about alpha decays from uranium. Concerning the 
part on TV - I mainly missed the Geiger counter part and therefore carefully 
asked a friend of mine (who is a nuclear chemistry PhD and has 25 years of 
experience measuring radioactivity in NPPs) about the details of the TV 
program - he saw and heard all the details - if it was true that they had 
something like that on TV and he confirmed it. I have no idea about what 
they measured and how it was done - since I missed those details. The 
general public don't know about penetrance properties of alphas and gammas 
and what a Geiger counter can't do. We can however have a considerable gamma 
component in our high uranium areas.

The bottom line is that the instrument on TV went high to some sparking 
noise and that the TV program put that together with the cancers & leukemias 
(I am not the Hollywood expert). I am not too familiar with the "yada yada" 
expression (it is not in any of my dictionaries including those with slang) 
but it sounds like it is unfriendly.

Bjorn Cedervall  bcradsafers@hotmail.com

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