[ RadSafe ] Re: Radiation deficiency remediation

[John Jacobus]

As a starting point, the total amount of potassium
varies from 110-140 grams, depending on muscle mass. 
The radioisotope, K-40, is about 0.0118% of natural
potassium.  K-40 decays by beta-minus, 89%, and
electron capture 11% with 1.46 MeV gamma rays, and
beta-plus 0.001%.  Beta-minus maximunm energy is 1.314
MeV.  With a half-life of 1.26 X 10^9 years, the
specific activity is 7.1 microCi/gm.  

As a first pass, the activity of K-40 is 92 to 117
nanoCi of activity.  

--- "Bradshaw, Keith" <keith.bradshaw at niras.co.uk>
wrote:
> I think we've discussed this on here before.  The
> additional dose from
> ingestion of potassium is likely to be very small. 
> It's just the dose as it
> is "passing through".  Unless you are deficient in
> potassium to start with,
> none of the additional potassium will be retained in
> the body.  Although
> I've not calculated it, I suspect you'd make
> yourself very sick if you
> attempted to ingest enough KCl to raise your
> radiation dose to these
> "hormetic" levels.  Perhaps that's why you have
> "given up on KCL"?
> 
> Personal views only
> 
> keith.bradshaw at niras.co.uk
> 
> web:  www.niras.co.uk
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> From: howard long [mailto:hflong at pacbell.net]
> Sent: 04 April 2005 16:48
> To: John Jacobus; dckosloff at firstenergycorp.com;
> jjcohen
> Cc: shliu at iner.gov.tw; radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl;
> radsafe;
> uniqueproducts at comcast.net; yuan-chi luan
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Re: Radiation deficiency
> remediation
> 
> 
> My 3, 40 lb sacks of KCL for water softener ($9
> each) give only a doubling
> of background radiation (0.030mrad/hr) on contact. I
> have given KCL up as an
> added source of radiation, although about as much
> comes to most of us from
> the KCL already in our bodies as usual USA coast
> background, according to
> Luckey's book.
>  
> Howard Long 
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-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
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