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Re: Dr. John Gofman
I may as well add one of my favorites: adults excrete over 1,000,000
atoms of plutonium per day.
At 08:18 AM 5/28/2003 -0700, John Jacobus wrote:
- The paper by Voelz, et al in HPJ V. 73 No. 4 (1997), "Fifty
years of
- plutonium exposure to the Manhattan Project plutonium workers:
an
- update," blows Gofman's "no safe dose" blather out of
the water.
- The individual with the highest deposition (3180 Bq) at the end
of
- 1994 was 86 years old and exhibited the medical profile one
would
- expect of a person that age ( e.g., hearing loss, benign
prostatic
- hypertrophy). 9 of the 10 individuals with the highest doses
were
- still alive and well at the end of the '94 study (minimum 1160 Bq,
ED
- ! = ! 3.0 Sv).
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