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



Could you please cite your source?  Of course, this

still shows no appreciable increase in cancer rates

following the use of a radiological dispersal device.



(By the way, in my original message, it should have

been "worse.")



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

wrote:



> 

> 

> 

> 

> If you look at the recent statistics the lifetime

> risk is about 1 in 3 for

> women and nearer 1 in 2 for men

> 

> ____________________Reply

> Separator____________________

> 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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> a House?"

>        Will Rogers

> 

> 

>        -- John

>        John Jacobus, MS

>        Certified Health Physicist

>        e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com

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