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Re: Risks of low level radiation - New Scientist Article
I was able to download a pdf version from this site:
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/98/25/14410.pdf
Jim
>From: maury <maury@WEBTEXAS.COM>
>Reply-To: maury <maury@WEBTEXAS.COM>
>To: Philippe Duport <pduport@uottawa.ca>
>CC: "Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe@UCDAVIS.EDU>, radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
>Subject: Re: Risks of low level radiation - New Scientist Article
>Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 11:32:09 -0600
>
>For one, thanks for taking the trouble to provide the instructive details.
>I
>appreciate the access to data rather than imaginative rhetoric and wishful
>thinking,
>Sincerely,
>Maury Siskel maury@webtexas.com
>=================================================
>Philippe Duport wrote:
>
> > Re Norm Cohen on PNAS (paper full ref : Zhou et al. Radiation risk to
>low
> > fluencies of alpha particles may be greater than we thought, PNAS
> > 98(14410-14415, Dec 4 2001)
> >
> > Otto Raabe is right. There is no indication of supra-linearity at low
> > dose - or dose rates of alpha radiation. Otto mentioned the radium dial
> > painters. There are also thresholds at about 2 Gy (40,000 mSv) in
>Thorotrats
>
>---------------------- snipped ----------
>
> > of error into account are welcome.
> >
> > Sorry for giving so many details!
> >
> > Philippe Duport
> > International Centre for Low Dose Radiation Research
> > University of Ottawa
> > 555 King Edward Ave.
> > Ottawa, ON, Canada, K1N 6N5
> > Tel: (613) 562 5800, ext. 1270
> > pduport@uottawa.ca
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe@UCDAVIS.EDU>
> > To: "Norman Cohen" <ncohen12@HOME.COM>; <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>
> > ----------------- snipped ------------
> > > Don't waste your time reading this New Scientist Article.
> > >
> > > The fact that high LET alpha radiation can produce unique multiple
> > > double-strand DNA lesions and the existence of bystander effects do
>not
> > > imply anything about elevated risk. Cancer from alpha radiation is
> > ----------------- snipped --------------------
> > > Prof. Otto G. Raabe, Ph.D., CHP
> > > Center for Health & the Environment
> > > (Street Address: Bldg. 3792, Old Davis Road)
>
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