Re: So, is reprocessing in America's future?

[Chuck Cooper <ccc@pp.pdx.edu>]

Jim Nelson asks about the Taiwan Co-60 in rebar situation:



> Ted,

>

> Is this documented somehwere?

> Jim Nelson

>



Just do a search on Google for "taiwan co-60", returns lots of hits, for

example this nugget via:

http://mailman.mcmaster.ca/mailman/private/cdn-nucl-l/9910.gz/msg00029.html

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[cdn-nucl-l] FW: Taiwan, Co-60 in rebar of 1700 apartments of 10,000

residents for 10 years







    To: "'cdn-nucl-l'" <cdn-nucl-l@informer2.cis.McMaster.CA>

    Subject: [cdn-nucl-l] FW: Taiwan, Co-60 in rebar of 1700 apartments of

10,000 residentsfor 10 years

    From: "Cuttler, Jerry" <CuttlerJ@aecl.ca>

    Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 16:03:52 -0400







I heard a presentation (at the June WONUC conference) on this interesting

situation (below) in Taiwan where a housing development of 1700 apartments

has cobalt-60 in the concrete rebar.  These residents have been receiving a

large radiation dose for the past 10 years.  The effect on their health

seems to be beneficial.



Apparently, it is too costly for the government to relocate the residents

and destroy the apartment buildings to remove the rebar containing the

cobalt-60.  So they continue to live there in this high dose environment.



Jerry

> ----------

> From:         yuan-chi luan[SMTP:nbcsoc@hotmail.com]

> Sent:         Wednesday, October 13, 1999 9:26 AM

> To:   clintonbastin@email.msn.com

> Cc:   et al ...

> Subject:      Taiwan, Co-60 in rebar of 1700 apartments of 10,000

> residents for 10 years

>

>

> Dear Dr. Clinton Bastin:

>

> As I had my whole life in peaceful used of nuclear science and technology,

>

> I would like to render some thoughts and recommendations to you and other

> scientists in light that I could contribute some to nuclear industry, and

> have

> my dream became true after I retired.

>

> I am so sorry to learn that the US news media also don't want to publish

> the

> correct and true information of nuclear activities.  All the key

> newspapers

> in Taiwan did not publish my article about chronic radiation is beneficial

>

> with the a common excuse there was no space for this kind paper.  The

> reporter who had won a special prize for reporting how atrocious and

> miserable of the contaminated apartments, never say a word about the

> irradiated residents could possibly be benefited by the chronic radiation.

>

> The reason for this both in Taiwan and US may be: the more fear and

> frighten

> of public, the more news can be created.

>

> You mentioned the brain cancers and the Georgia Tech reactor can be

> helpful

> for their therapy; but I do hope you consider of what I told you in my

> last

> E-mail about the chronic radiation could be an effective immunity form

> cancers.  Immunity of cancers is much more important than the cancer

> therapy.  There were some successful therapy of older men both in Japan

> and

> in Taiwan.  But the predicted health effects in the incident that about

> 3300

> man-Sv of doses received by more than 10,000 residents living in about

> 1700

> apartments would cause about 20 leukemia deaths and 21 hereditary

> defectives

> in 16 years, based on ICRP prediction - on the contrary, the spontaneous

> cancer mortality of the residents reduced to only 3.4% of the general

> public, just like an effective immunity.  This fact should be known by the

>

> entire world, when I presented my paper about "Chronic radiation could be

> an

> effective immunity from cancers" in June Boston ANS meeting, I said that

> the

> purpose of my paper was not only to present a now concept of radiation

> health effects for radiation protection, but also invitation of science

> community to confirm this fact.  I hope you can do something for this.

> The

> information obtained from incident of 60Co-contamination in Taiwan would

> be

> more valuable than that from atomic bomb explosion in Japan.  Purposely

> ignoring or suppressing such information due to prejudice and other

> individual or establishment interests, is harmful to nuclear industry, and

>

> mostly would prevent human beings to have immunity against cancers.

>

> The conclusion of chronic radiation is always beneficial to human beings

> obtained from the incident of 60Co-contamination surely can help to

> eliminate the public fear of radiation.  But the nuclear accident still

> can

> frighten public, the criticality accident of JCO in Tokai recently, caused

>

> also influence to the public in the world, there are a lot talking in

> quitting the construction of nuclear power plant No: 4 and have on more

> nuclear activities in Taiwan.  But from the results observed in the

> 60Co-contamination, we could also conclude that a nuclear accident could

> damage facility, injure workers, even kill workers, but the off-site

> public

> receive the radiation chronically from the dispersed radioactive material,

>

> would be also beneficial to their health, their cancers and hereditary

> diseases would also be reduced.  Our group including Dr. W.L. Chen and

> S.J.

> Su are also going to study on this and write a paper with such conclusion,

>

> for the purpose in eliminating the public fear of the nuclear accident.

>

> I hope my thought and recommendation are helpful to you!

>

> Truthful yours

>

> Y. C. Luan

> Head of radiation protection of NuSTA.

> Consultant of NBC Society

> Visiting senior scientist of INER

>













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