[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
RE: Co-60 contamination incident in Taiwan
Can you provide your references on the cancer rates?
-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
3050 Traymore Lane
Bowie, MD 20715-2024
E-mail: jenday1@email.msn.com (H)
-----Original Message-----
From: yuan-chi luan [mailto:nusta66@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 6:08 AM
To: Radsafe@@list.vanderbilt.edu
Cc: meigt@ornl.gov; Jacobus, John (OD/ORS); tedrock@CPCUG.ORG;
nelsonjima@motmail.com; faseiler@NMIA.COM
Subject: Co-60 contamination incident in Taiwan
Dear radsafe friends:
>From my friends I learned there were disputes on the heath effects of
radiation observed in the incident of Co-60 contaminated houses in Taiwan. I
would like to say a few words about this matter..
The epidemic study of RERF in more than 50 years of about 6300 atomic bomb
survivors who received the acute doses > 0.5 Sv indicating that leukemia
mortality rate of the survivors was much higher definitely than the general
public (1996 RERF) This is basically the originate of LNT of ICRP and the
radiation-phobia of public. There were about 10,000 residents who living in
about 1580 apartments with reinforced bars contaminated by Co-60 and
received an average dose about 0.34 Sv in 9-19 years; But the health effects
observed were completely different, the leukemia mortality did increase any
bit but decreased to about 40% (two young boys died in leukemia, but AEC did
believe they were related to radiation as they studied only a short period
the light contaminated classroom ) and their spontaneous cancers reduced
sharply to about 3.4% of the general public (the spontaneous cancer deaths
would be about 205 and leukemia deaths would be about 5 ) therefore the
chronic radiation has no harm, on the contrary only hormesis, and the
hormesis was so strong that could immune cancers as vaccine.(1999, 2000
Luan) So
that the chronic radiation should always be welcomed by public, and by
peaceful use of nuclear and radiation.
I don¡¦t try to convince any one, I want all the radiation protection
friends would have different idea about radiation and all the radiation
protection organizations would face the new fact honestly.
Regards,
Y.C.Luan
The Senior Scientist of NuSTA and Consultant of NBC Society.
_________________________________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
************************************************************************
You are currently subscribed to the Radsafe mailing list. To unsubscribe,
send an e-mail to Majordomo@list.vanderbilt.edu Put the text "unsubscribe
radsafe" (no quote marks) in the body of the e-mail, with no subject line.