Re: Co-60 contamination incident in Taiwan

[Muckerheide <muckerheide@MEDIAONE.NET>]

John,



I provided the manuscript with refs.   :-(



Jim

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> Can you provide your references on the cancer rates?

> 

> -- John 

> John Jacobus, MS

> Certified Health Physicist

> 3050 Traymore Lane

> Bowie, MD  20715-2024

> 

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> -----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.

> 

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