Re: Societies issue primer on radiological terrorism threats:Kearny practicalities

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

I was able to locate the section in my copy.  The copy

posted at the Web site is a later version.  My copy,

copywrited 1982, has no index, and my page 96

corresponds to the page 113 on the Web site.  Very

frustrating.  I don't have any desire to have a new

edition.



I assume Kearny's estate, since he died last year

http://www.blogofdeath.com/archives/000650.html , is

also not collecting royalties.  However, there seems

to be a new edition advertised at

http://www.knowledgepublications.com/kp_nwssbook.htm



--- Howard Long <hflong@pacbell.net> wrote:

> Right, John,

> Any HP who does not find the KI info under "iodine"

> in the Index of "Nuclear

> War Survival Skills" can get a new cc at cost from

> www.oism.org . Kearny

> took no commission on sales!

> 

> Howard  Long

> 

> ----- Original Message ----- 

> From: "John Jacobus" <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>

> To: "Howard Long" <hflong@pacbell.net>; "David V.

> Becker"

> <dvb2001@MED.CORNELL.EDU>

> Cc: "Jane Orient" <jorient@MINDSPRING.COM>;

> "'radsafe'"

> <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>; "David V. Becker"

> <dvb2001@MED.CORNELL.EDU>;

> "Al-Nabulsi, Isaf" <ialnabul@nas.edu>

> Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 8:12 AM

> Subject: Re: Societies issue primer on radiological

> terrorism threats:Kearny

> practicalities

> 

> 

> > The pages you cite are not in the book (copywrite

> > 1982) that I have.

> >

> > Besides shielding (mass) one can also apply the

> > principles of time and distance.  If you stay in

> your

> > house, radiation from the fallout would be reduces

> due

> > to the distance between the roof and outside walls

> and

> > the outside walls.  Also, if people shelter and

> later

> > evauated, short-lived radionuclides would be

> decay.

> > Basically, the activity is reduced by a factor 10

> over

> > 7 hours.

> >

> > There are a number of health physicist who know

> this,

> > and more.

> >

> > --- Howard Long <hflong@pacbell.net> wrote:

> > > p 113, "All members of families with a supply of

> > > potassium iodide could

> > > safely eat a normal diet long before those

> without

> > > it could do so." and

> > > p114, p115 "Ways to obtain [KI] for prophylactic

> use

> > > - By prescription -

> > > Without prescription - Practical expedient ways

> to

> > > prepare and take -

> > > Preparing [KI] tablets to give to infants and

> small

> > > children - Warnings -",

> > > etc.

> > >

> > > Dr Orient once summarized for a Civil Defense

> group

> > > the {more important}

> > > general protection as (approx), "GET MASS

> BETWEEN

> > > YOU AND EXCESS RADIATION."

> > >

> > > I compared the excellent new Primer for

> > > Professionals and Kearney's NWSS

> > > only for

> > > I 131. Both benefit professionals, like HPs in

> > > Radsafe.

> > >

> > > Howard Long

> > >

> > > ----- Original Message ----- 

> > > From: "John Jacobus" <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>

> > > To: "David V. Becker" <dvb2001@MED.CORNELL.EDU>

> > > Cc: "Jane Orient" <jorient@MINDSPRING.COM>;

> "'Howard

> > > Long'"

> > > <hflong@pacbell.net>; "'radsafe'"

> > > <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>; "David V.

> > > Becker" <dvb2001@MED.CORNELL.EDU>; "Al-Nabulsi,

> > > Isaf" <ialnabul@nas.edu>

> > > Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 5:51 AM

> > > Subject: Re: Societies issue primer on

> radiological

> > > terrorism threats:Kearny

> > > practicalities

> > >

> > >

> > > > I have a copy of Kearny's "Nuclear War

> Survival

> > > > Skills."  Where does he recommend the use of

> KI?

> > > >

> > > > > --- Howard Long <hflong@pacbell.net> wrote:

> > > > > > Radsafers and DDP,

> > > > > > My quick review of I 131 response in the

> > > > > Primer  below, so helpfully

> > > > > referenced by John J, then comparing it with

> > > > > Kearny's in his Nuclear War Survival Skills

> > > > > (from www.oism.org) suggests that KI ss 4

> > > drops/d  or  one 130 mgm

> > > tab/d to

> > > > > all who may be exposed when there is a

> nuclear

> > > attack, is needed while

> > > you

> > > > > health physicists are determining the

> > > pCuries/m3  in  the air.

> 

> > http://www.vanderbilt.edu/radsafe/

> >

> 

> 





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-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com



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