Re: Laymans questions on hormesis and LNT

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

I worked at the Armed Forces Radiobiology Institute

where radiation biology was also performed, and may be

to this day.  We used mice, rats, ferrets, pigs, dogs

and monkeys.  The mission of these facilities was to

look at radioprotectants and the effects of high

radiation doese.  My recollections of the literature,

some of which has been published, did not involve any

protracted or "pulsed" doses.  On the battlefield,

acute doses are the ones of interests.  



You can certainly check out their site at

http://www.afrri.usuhs.mil/



--- John Andrews <andrewsjp@chartertn.net> wrote:

> I suspect that there is information available on

> this.  The TRIGA 

> reactors at General Atomic in San Diego were used to

> do this type of 

> irradiation on animals (dogs, I believe) for the

> military.  This was 

> done rather quietly, is suspect because no one wants

> to see beagles 

> hurt.  I have no information about who did the work

> or what the project 

> was for.  I was just a bystander maintaining the

> monitoring equipment.  

> This work was done in the mid-60's to the best of my

> memory.

> 





=====

-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com



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