Re[2]: Activists Criticize US Advice On 'Dirty Bomb' Exposur

["Mccormick, Luke I" <LUKE.Mccormick@dhs.gov>]

If you look at the recent statistics the lifetime risk is about 1 in 3 for

women and nearer 1 in 2 for men



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

Author:     owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

Date:       12/10/2004 8:15 AM









       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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