Re: Stop the madness/Education... Natural radiation... Doses

["Bjorn Cedervall" <bcradsafers@HOTMAIL.COM>]

>tailored to frighten the heck out of people. How many of you have ever 

>explained what a curie is to a sincere-sounding antinuclear activist in 

>private, only to hear that same person later tell in dramatic tones a 

>shocked legislative committee holding a public hearing that a curie is 

>"thirty-seven BILLION(!)...DISINTEGRATIONS(!) ....per SECOND(!!!)"

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Try to get the natural radiation published in the contexts - the related 

doses. Or just how many disintegrations their own bodies experience per day

(132 pound person as an example, 0,454 kg = 1 pound):



60 kg * 100 (Bq/100 kg) * 24 * 3600 = ______ (integrations per 24 hour day)



It is our responsibility as radiation professionals to try to get through 

with these messages. In addition, check your kids' textbooks in physics & 

chemistry to make sure that they learn about natural radiation. If the 

natural radioactivity is not there (some books from around 1960 have 

eleveated cesium levels :-) - just act in the best way!



There will never be an end to these scarytales unless we do something - many 

panic oriented newsmedia people seem to hate natural radioactivity - it has 

sometimes been first priority to delete (or delay) those paragraphs when I 

have written something. Just don't give up.



My personal ideas only,



Bjorn Cedervall   bcradsafers@hotmail.com

http://www.geocities.com/bjorn_cedervall/





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