Re: Op-Ed in International Herald Tribune

["Phil Hypes" <laradcon@HOTMAIL.COM>]

One of the key words here is "undetectable."  It's undetectable because 

pregnancies often take a few weeks to be detected.  This means that many 

women (as-yet unknowing mothers) won't know when they should be concerned 

about solar flares.



Phil Hypes

Los Alamos Radiation Consultants

laradcon@hotmail.com

505.920.9712





>Andrew McEwan quotes from ICRP 84:

>

>"When the number of cells in the conceptus is small and their nature is not

>yet specialised, the effect of damage to these cells is most likely to take

>the form of failure to implant or of an undetectable death of the 

>conceptus;"



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