[ RadSafe ] Re: Radiation deficiency remediation

[Bernard Cohen]

According to ICRP-30, the weighted committed dose equivalent for 
tritiated water is 1.7^-11 Sv/Bq, or about 60 rem/Ci. Thus to get 1 rem 
you should ingest about 16 mCi of tritiated water.

Jay Caplan wrote:

>Dr. Cohen,
>With a 10 day biological half life, what amount would deliver 1 rem? Is the
>fact that tritium only emits a low voltage beta a deficiency vis anticipated
>hormesis compared to x-ray or gamma?
>Thanks
>Jay Caplan
>
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>Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 4:26 PM
>Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Re: Radiation deficiency remediation
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>>Some answers to questions regarding RDS (Radiation Deficiency Syndrome)
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>>Q: What is the optimal dose for humans?
>>A: Optimal dose would be subject to individual differences, but would
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>likely
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>>range somewhere between 1.0 and 10.0 rem/a
>>     (0.01 and 0.1 Sv/a). If a single value is desired, probably 3.0 rem/a
>>(0.03Sv/a) would suffice.
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>>Q: How to identify those with radiation deficiency?
>>A: Just about everybody, except perhaps residents of Ramsar or Kerala.
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>(see
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>>previous answer)
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>>Q: How about Potassium for supplementary radiation?
>>A: No good! Specific activity level too low for internal application
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>(would
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>>need too much)--- also could screw up electrolyte
>>      balance. For external, also not good---see discussion by Howard Long
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>>Q: Just move to Denver?
>>A: Why bother. It would only get you a small fraction of the way toward
>>optimal dose level.
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>>Q: X-rays?
>>A; Not uniform, inconvenient, and expensive
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>>Q: Why supplementary radiation via Tritium?
>>A: It is cheap, abundant, can be easily distributed as water, and is
>>naturally occuring (for those who like "organic" isotopes.)
>>    --- if its natural, it must be good!
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