[ RadSafe ] Re: Radiation deficiency remediation: KCl

[John Jacobus]

You say the dose rate is 0.06 mrad/hr at contact. 
What is it on the surface of the mattress where you
sleep?

And I agree.  The effort is not worth it.

--- howard long <hflong at pacbell.net> wrote:
> Distance, not mass, makes the big dose reductioner
> from a mattress.
> I don't plan on using the KCl for a mattress: not
> enough effect to be worth the trouble
>  
> Howard 
> 
> John Jacobus <crispy_bird at yahoo.com> wrote:
> A mattress will not reduce the photon radiation that
> much, as the energies are 1.4 MeV. All you would
> loose is the beta emissions from the surface you
> sleep
> on. The beta emissions would contribute to a shallow
> dose on the side in contact with the bags.
> 
> Let me know if the additional radiation improves
> your
> health beyond the placebo effect. Maybe it will
> offset not sleeping on a mattress.
> 
> --- howard long wrote:
. . .
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > 
> > > 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
> e-mail: crispy_bird at yahoo.com
> 
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"Embarrassed, obscure and feeble sentences are generally, if not always, the result of embarrassed, obscure and feeble thought."
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-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com


		
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