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Re: [Fwd: CURE for Rad Fear]

Howard,

My point is if you make external measurements, and then someone says that the risk is due to internal exposure, don't you think that the public will doubt your knowledge and understanding of the risk?  Do you think that this will instill confidence in your message? 

 howard long <hlong@pacbell.net> wrote:

What is that level of risk, John?
 
I have never heard of a single case of ingestion or inhalation Pu poisoning. Have you?
 Has anyone on this List?
 
The good of measuring external exposure is reassurance of these persons with fear of that non-existent danger and mitigation of their obstruction to uses of radioactivity.
 
Howard Long
 
----- Original Message -----
From: John Jacobus
To: hflong@postoffice.pacbell.net ; Vtletters@cctimes.com ; jersnav@MINDSPRING.COM ; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 1:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Fwd: CURE for Rad Fear]

Howard,

Since the risk from plutonium is from inhalation and ingestion, what good is the meter that measures external exposure rates?

 hflong@postoffice.pacbell.net wrote:


This should be of special interest to you.
. . .

My alpha-gamma-x counter measured just 0.0002 mrad/minute in the
Livermore Council Chambers.


-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail: crispy_bird@yahoo.com


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