Pravda article on Hormesis

["Wes Van Pelt" <WesVanPelt@att.net>]

Radsafers,



 



There is an article in Pravda about the Co-60 dose to the apartment building

occupants in Taiwan and the resulting hormesis. The link to the article is

given below as well as the first two paragraphs of the article.



 



 http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/377/12954_radiation.html 



 



Best regards,



Wes



Wesley R. Van Pelt, PhD, CIH, CHP

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Nuclear radiation can improve human health? 05/29/2004 13:26 



Cancer rates in highly radioactive building are down to 3.6%. 

In 1983 a group of 180 apartment buildings was completed in Taiwan. Somebody

had made a serious mistake. They had mixed into the concrete a considerable

amount of highly radioactive cobalt 60. 



This meant that ultimately 10,000 people lived in buildings for from 9 to 20

years so radioactive that they received an average of 74 mSv of radiation

per year in 1983, declining thereafter as cobalt 60 has a half life of 5 +

years. This compares with a rate of 0.5 mSv above background which is the

normal maximum exposure for radiation workers & total of 15 mSv maximum safe

limit for land fit for habitation according to US government standards.