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Re: Seawater source of -: 0.026 mR/hr 1' from 120lb KCl, 2x background
Well, why don't you start taking KI tables? It will
protection you in case of a nuclear reactor accident
or weapon attack, and give you the hormetic dose you
crave?
--- howard long <hflong@pacbell.net> wrote:
> Leslie Salt Co in Fremont CA has c a square mile of
> salt beds in the San Francisco Bay.
> Inquiry about its KCl byproduct of Na Cl, referred
> me to Home Depot and Lowes stores, which sold me
> Diamond Crystal Potassium Chloride "alternative
> choice to sodium chloride for your water softener.
> It has real benefit to patients on a low sodium diet
> for high blood pressure, so will be readily
> available. However, I can't find a comfortable
> configuration of 3, 40 lb bags that gives more than
> about 2-4 x the ambient here at 350' elevation east
> of SF. I'd like 10 to 100 times.
>
> Howard Long
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> Franz Schönhofer <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT>
> wrote:
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> Franz Schoenhofer
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> PhD, MR iR
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> Habicherg. 31/7
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> A-1160 Vienna
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> AUSTRIA
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> phone (international) -43-699-1168-1319
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> phone (national) 0699-1168-1319
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> Russ, Stewart and others,
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> First of all I did not know, that potassium chloride
> (KCl) was used as a water softener salt, to my
> knowledge sodium chloride (NaCl) is used for it.
> Maybe systems are in use in the USA which prefer
> KCl. Discharged NaCl is not environmentally friendly
> and neither is KCl. KCl is known as an efficient
> .quick melt. thawing salt, though because of its
> environmentally negative impact in Europe on a large
> scale there is increasingly used a wizard salt,
> which to my knowledge contains mostly urea.
> Nevermind, because of global warming we will need in
> Europe no thawing salt at all in the future and I
> can rely in Vienna on the community snow ploughs and
> even more on our excellent public transport anyway..
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> Fertilizers are very well known not only to contain
> potassium and thereby K-40, but also NORM, depending
> on the way it was produced, reaching from uranium,
> thorium and radium isotopes and their progeny.
> Increased doserates are therefore no surprise for
> me. I have seen about thirty years ago the bunkers
> of the biggest fertilizer factory in Austria, which
> have contained thousands if not millions of tons of
> fertilizer. I am still concerned about the radon
> concentration in these bunkers and even more on the
> gamma dose rates people receive there and during
> transport in lorries. I would have very much wanted
> to find out, but never had a chance.
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> This problem is the same everywhere in the world.
> .Everyone. responsible knows about it. Where are the
> regulations? Where are the controllers? When LNT
> will be out of business this problem will be
> obsolete anyway. Or should customers all over the
> world buy these fertilizers and thawing salts and
> put them below their beds in order to benefit from
> the hormetic effect...
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> Best regards,
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> Franz
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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
> [mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu] Im
> Auftrag von Russ Johnson
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 27. Oktober 2004 20:40
> An: radsafe@list.Vanderbilt.Edu
> Betreff: Re: Correction: 0.026 mR/hr 1' from 120lb
> KCl, 2x background
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> Interesting topic, thought I'd jump in. We have a
> professor here that bought a 50 lb bag of commercial
> garden fertilizer at our local Walmart. He uses it
> in one of his classes as a low dose rate gamma
> source demo. Just for kicks, I surveyed it with a
> pancake GM meter and saw a solid 0.15 mR/hr at
> contact with the bag. GMs are known to over-respond
> at low energy (which this isn't), but in any case
> we're still talking mR, not microR. I can't imagine
> tons of that stuff sitting in one place!
> -Russ
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> farbersa@optonline.net wrote:
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