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RE: ARTICLE: Fallout likely caused 15,000 deaths
Jim,
My point is that you need to provide the correct information, whether it
meets your personal agenda or not. When you go from a handful of childhood
thyroid cancers per decade to hundreds a year, that is a significant
increase. True, there were no deaths, but the number of cases is cause for
alarm. Particularly when it could have been avoided.
-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
3050 Traymore Lane
Bowie, MD 20715-2024
E-mail: jenday1@email.msn.com (H)
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Muckerheide [mailto:jmuckerheide@cnts.wpi.edu]
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 12:27 PM
To: Jacobus, John (OD/ORS); radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: RE: ARTICLE: Fallout likely caused 15,000 deaths
John,
Don't have time to go back to the numbers I sent to you before, but it's
like ~1 case out of ~100,000 children exposed to Chernobyl!?
(maybe ~50-60,000 in one high-dose region; ~120,000 in another moderately
exposed region)
And you'd call it...? :-)
A DISASTER!?
(How about "Not as many as die from fossil fuel releases from a power plant
in normal operation!?" :-)
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