Re: Potassium cell study

[Muckerheide <muckerheide@attbi.com>]

In the part you cut out of the quote, personal knowledge of Charlie Willis,

CHP, NRC senior staff; go to NRC web site, transcript, March 1996, Joint

Subcommittee of ACRS/ACNW. You also cut out the part about "...because of

the LNT, this data was not published."



Jim





on 7/9/02 4:06 PM, Jacobus, John (OD/ORS) at jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov wrote:



> I have this story several times from people whom I trust.  However, is their

> any real "credible" information on this, or is an urban legend?  If you

> think this is part of the government conspiracy, please do not bother

> replying.

> 

> -- John 

> 

> -----Original Message-----

> From: Muckerheide [mailto:muckerheide@attbi.com]

> Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2002 11:48 PM

> To: Norman Cohen; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

> Subject: Re: 3 items of interest

> . . . "at the lab [Oak Ridge] in 1958 cells were studied with

> potassium from which the radioactive radionuclide had been removed [in the

> calutrons, machines used to centrifuge elements for isotopic separation] the

> cells looked ok but didn't function, . . ."

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