Re: Dr.Gofman--I just wonder..

["Vincent King" <slavak@attbi.com>]

Radsafers-



It should be rather easy to determine whether there is a problem or not with

buried material in the Niagra Falls area by simply looking at exposure

pathways and sampling/measuring whether anything is there.  People are not

at risk just because somebody buried something in the vicinity a long time

ago.  They don't receive harmful exposures to radioactive materials without

the radioactive material going from point A (where it's buried) to point B

(the exposed population).  If the hazardous materials aren't detectable in

some pathway to the public, then how does the population

receive a dose of any significance?  (Answer: they don't.)



[Whether buried material should be 'remediated' (i.e., dug up and buried

somewhere else) is a separate question that must be answered on a case by

case basis.]



And what is the mechanism for sub-background radiation doses to cause

previously unknown health effects (e.g., heart disease) when low, medium,

and high radiation doses do not cause these effects in any other

populations?  (Living in the middle of the uranium mining area of the

country, I'm somewhat familiar with the research on miners.  If heart

disease was an effect of long term radiation exposure, it would not have

gone unnoticed in that research.)



I am outraged at the smirking hypocrisy of groups who would

rather see resources wasted on their pet (anti-nuclear) cause - justifying

it by their

"concern" for the health and safety of the public - when in fact their

efforts do nothing

but divert resources that could be used to find and remedy real public

health problems.



I'm all for finding true causes of public health problems and solving them,

radiological or otherwise.  But anyone who continues to perpetuate their pet

"cause" by ignoring experts and scientifically based methods that can easily

identify (or exclude) a particular hazard as the problem is NOT interested

in the health of the public.



Vincent King

Grand Junction, CO



(P.S.  On the particular issue at hand, UCC-Electromet's ranking in uranium

processing is absolutely irrelevant if there is no pathway to exposure.  If

there really is a pathway to exposures of any significance, then show me the

numbers to prove it (not a difficult task),

otherwise it's a waste of time.  VK)



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