Re: Welcome to California - Aha!

["Tosh Ushino, CHP" <rad_chp@yahoo.com>]

Well, since Mike Stabin got on the thread with his

comments, I'll add my 2 cents worth...



When we found 4 contaminated kittens at San Onofre

Nuclear Generating Station in 1996, we found that one

brand of popular kitty litter we bought in grocery

store contained about 0.4 microcuries/gram of natural

radioactivity (uranium series).  If the activity was

little higher, maybe I could saved few bucks on having

my daughter's pet cat fixed.  :-) (<<Just a joke,

folks!)



We also learned that at least one California vetenary

school release treated pets to their owners when the

contact exposure rate is less than 50 mR/hr and the

excreta contain less than 10 times the exempt quantity

limit for the radionuclide of concern.



Tosh Ushino

ICN Dosimetry



--- Michael Stabin <michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu>

wrote:

> 

> >"California" raisins are 6.3 pCi/g 

> 

> Aha! So the State of California is the culprit,

> regularly exporting tons of TOXIC material emitting

> DEADLY radiation around the US and probably the

> world. THIS MUST BE STOPPED IMMEDIATELY!! We must

> immediately build a safe repository for this deadly

> toxic material that will keep it from irradiating

> any more innocent children with its gamma rays of

> nearly 1.5 million electron volts. Remember that the

> half-life of K-40 is 1,300,000,000 years, which

> means that this deadly toxic material will remain

> hazardous for generations to come. I think that an

> investigational team should be organized in Congress

> to find out how this has been permitted to go on for

> so long, how many people have been exposed, and how

> many are due compensation for cancers caused by this

> deadly toxic material entering their bodies and

> being stored in their homes. We could issue a

> bulletin and ask parents of all children who may

> have eaten California raisins to have their children

> whole body counted to see if any detectable levels

> of this deadly toxin K-40 might remain (Raisin Fairy

> Project). If so, they should receive compensation

> from the State of California. The state should also

> pay for all of the whole body counting procedures.

> 

> Mike

> 

> Michael G. Stabin, PhD, CHP

> Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiological

> Sciences

> Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences

> Vanderbilt University

> 1161 21st Avenue South

> Nashville, TN 37232-2675

> Phone (615) 343-0068

> Fax   (615) 322-3764

> e-mail     michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu

> internet   www.doseinfo-radar.com





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