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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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