Re: "Nuclear Waste - Seeking Solutions" NG July 2002

[Muckerheide <muckerheide@attbi.com>]

Hi Howard,



Just one minor correction that I didn't pick up on before if it was there.

Re the Taiwan Co-60 experience, you at least need to remove "comparable" and

perhaps just say "206 cancers in the general Taipei/Taiwan population.



It is the commitment to defraud the public by the ICRP and their Taiwan

counterparts to prevent an epidemiological study that would be able to

age-adjust the population. We have no indication that the population that

bought these units in 1982-83 when they were constructed has

age-adjusted/demographic data to state that the general population is

comparable.



Thanks.

Regards, Jim

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on 7/8/02 8:40 AM, hflong@postoffice.pacbell.net at

hflong@postoffice.pacbell.net wrote:



> Dear Radsafe commentators,

> Thank you.

> As you can see, I have incorporated many of your comments.

> I hope you will all be acosted by disturbed neighbors, inquiring into

> the insanity of this heresy to ALARA. It will provide opportunity to

> educate them and minimize dirty bomb panic.

> Howard

> Howard Long MD MPH, Family Doctor and Epidemiologist

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> Nuclear Waste - The Medicine Solution

> 

> Dear Forum Editor,

> Recycled radioactive waste in radiation-deficient homes (most of the

> USA)

> could improve wound healing and  prevent cancer in a dose of 0.1 to 1.0

> mrem/hr.

> Numerous animal and human population studies suggest this.

> 

> Placebo-controlled trials are needed to find the best dose.

> USA counties averaging 100 Bq/cubic meter home radon (like mountain

> states)

> have lower  lung cancer death rates than counties with more radon  (like

> Iowa)

> or less radon, (like most of the USA).

> 

> Also, 27,872 nuclear shipyard workers with 0.5 rem extra radiation

> (like they'd get in mountain states) had just 0.76 the total death rate

> of

> coworkers. See “Is Radiation an Essential Trace Energy”,

> http//www.aps.org/units/fps/oct01/a5oct01.html.

> 

> Residents of Taiwan condos receiving over 20 x usual background

> radiation from cobalt 60 waste in re-bar had only 7 cancers

> vs 206 cancers in a comparable population.

> 

> So, as more iodine, fluoride, vitamins and sunshine can prevent

> goiter, tooth decay, dementia or rickets, let’s offer radiation “waste”

> for deficient homes, carefully measuring its dose- like other

> supplements. .

> 

> Howard Long

> 

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