Re: "Limit to Survival - Effect of Radiation

[hflong@postoffice.pacbell.net]

Franz and all,

I apologize for the confusion from the siimile, but not for the point:that

radiation, like iodine, fluoride and other preventive medicine, seems to be very

beneficial in small dose and to withhold it is  harmful.  I have great respect

for controlling radiation dosage, since I took thousands of chest, extremity and

abdominal x-rays in a room I personally designed for ALARA 42 years ago.



I am familiar enough with isotopes to have observed them in imaging, treatment

and some other applications here at Berkeley and Livermore. I wish I knew a

great deal more about the effects of radon and its daughters, since this and

gamma emitters like uranium ore or CO 60 (in mattress steel?) may be used more

for public health - survival topic- in the near future. I hope this will be by

individual choice and that most citizens will understand more than Franz thought

I did (like attributing radioactivity to iodized salt).



Howard Long



Ted Rockwell wrote:



> Franz:

>

> There is no inherent or necessary connection between LNT and radioactivity.

> LNT, and the resulting notion of collective dose and ALARA can be, and have

> been, applied to many substances that are not radioactivity.

>

> Ted Rockwell

>

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

> From: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

> [mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu]On Behalf Of Franz Schoenhofer

> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 11:41 AM

> To: hflong@postoffice.pacbell.net; Jacobus, John (NIH/OD/ORS)

> Cc: 'RuthWeiner@aol.com'; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

> Subject: AW: "Limit to Survival - Effect of Radiation

>

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----

> Von: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

> [mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu]Im Auftrag von

> hflong@postoffice.pacbell.net

> Gesendet: Dienstag, 08. Oktober 2002 13:58

> An: Jacobus, John (NIH/OD/ORS)

> Cc: 'RuthWeiner@aol.com'; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

> Betreff: Re: "Limit to Survival - Effect of Radiation

>

> John,

> Would it be, "a common sense (conservative) point of view of risk

> management." to further deprive people in a goiter-deaf-retarded area (Great

> Lakes, Himalaya foothills, central Mexico) of iodine, as called for by LNT

> and

> ALARA?

> Or would your common sense deprive most American children of the fluoride

> that

> could save tooth drilling? ALARA would do more harm than good (i.e. NOT

> common

> sense or "conservative") in these or sunshine. The preponderance of data

> suggests that ALARA damages.

>

> Howard Long

>

> -----------------------------------------

> ???????????????????????????????????????????

> Howard,

>

> What are you writing about? I thought that LNT and ALARA had something to do

> with radioactivity? What you mention is  s t a b l e  iodine!!! And I do not

> know of anybody or any organisation which would question the use of stable

> iodine in iodine deficient areas or would want to remove it from water. Or

> do you advocate to use I-131 or I-125 or maybe even I-129 in these areas???

>

> I know, that some people are against fluoridation of drinking water, but I

> never heard that the ALARA principle (As Low As Reasonably Achievable) was

> used to reduce fluoride in drinking water. Again, the fluoride is not

> radioactive.

>

> Please give an explanation and it must be a very good one and reasonable,

> because otherwise you would only show, that you have no idea about basic

> knowledge on radioactivity and isotopes and I as well as others would know

> what to think about your other contributions on "hormesis".

>

> Franz

>

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