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RE: [Fwd: CURE for Rad Fear]
CURE is also the acronym for our (Connecticut's) educational organization to
educate the public on beneficial uses of radioactive materials, e.g., for
bio-medical research. CURE (Connecticut United for Research Excellence) is
composed of volunteers from universities, industry (Canberra, Pfizer, Bayer,
Alexion...), government, and the medical professions.
http://www.curenet.org/
S.R. Smith, former CURE member
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Sent: Thu, January 23, 2003 2:01 PM
To: John Jacobus
Cc: howard long; Vtletters@cctimes.com; jersnav@MINDSPRING.COM;
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Subject: Re: [Fwd: CURE for Rad Fear]
Citizens, Utilize Radioactive Environment!, is a word play on CARE,
Citizens Against a Radioactive Environment, the local anti-nuc activists
with a newsletter blockading LLNL in every way it can.
Some of the public at the 1/15 CA State presentation, who were
frightened by CARE, expressed fear that the plutonium containing sludge
may have been used as fertilizer by previous owners of their homes and
that their children might get cancer from playing in the garden (perhaps
eating the dirt). Only melanoma has an increase locally. It has been
thoroughly studied (I can fax that study to anyone interested) and only
UV was related (vs case controls).
R. Condit gave out a memo and USA uranium-in-soil map. He pointed out
that "In Livermore,- 2 ppm eU is roughly 5 picocuries per gram of soil"
and "In the body of a 150 pound person, the radioactivity amounts to
220,000 pCi, which is half a million atomic disintegrations per minute.
This is all natural radioactivity."
A response on this list writes that Los Almos reported Pu ingestion -
but no indication of harm. Does anyone have data (not just LNT theory)
that anyone has ever been harmed by Pu ingestion?
Measure of low radiation in the garden should be reassuring to radphobia
victims - as should this dialogue suggesting benefit from more
radiation, at least up to 10 rem/year.
Howard Long
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