Re: Activists Criticize US Advice On 'Dirty Bomb' Exposure

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

What is worst is a quarter of the people NOT exposed

will get cancer.



--- Sandy Perle <sandyfl@EARTHLINK.NET> wrote:



> Index:

> . . .

> ========================================

> 

> Activists Criticize US Advice On 'Dirty Bomb'

> Exposure

> 

> NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Antinuclear activists maintain

> that advice the 

> U.S. government is preparing to give state and local

> officials on how 

> to react to the detonation of a radioactive "dirty

> bomb" wouldn't 

> protect the public from absorbing huge radiation

> doses in the years 

> after such an event, the New York Times reported in

> its Wednesday 

> editions.

> 

> In fact, they say, those doses might be enough to

> induce cancer in 

> about a quarter of those exposed, the report said.

. . .



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-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com



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