Re: Dirty bombs(more on the LNT)

["Rad Safety Institute" <radsafeinst@cableone.net>]

That's an interesting reply: thanks for sending it along............................Ed

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From: howard long

To: Rad Safety Institute ; RuthWeiner@AOL.COM ; sjd@swcp.com ; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 5:16 PM

Subject: Re: Dirty bombs(more on the LNT)

Ed,

My most effective rebuttle (very limited) is to accuse an anti-nuc of depriving people of "invisible sunshine". Most are aware of rickets and can understand the benefit of mortality reduction by raising background ionizing radiation from coast to mountain level, almost equivalent to curing all cancers!

 

Then when they say, "I doubt that!", I quote Hiroshima-Nagasaki cancer reduction (in survivors,up to 10 rad) and Cameron's data of mortality 0.76 for > 0.5 rad extra exposure of shipyard workers, in "Is Radiation An Essential Trace Energy".

I don't have those references on this computer, but they are in this chat box archive.

 

Happy New Year

 

Howard Long