[ RadSafe ] Re: Radiation deficiency remediation

[Jay Caplan]

Although there is a lot of tritium in gun sights, exit signs, etc. isn't it all gaseous? There is no commercial source of tritiated water that consumers could access, is there?
Jay Caplan
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bernard Cohen 
  To: Jay Caplan 
  Cc: dckosloff at firstenergycorp.com ; howard long ; John Jacobus ; jjcohen ; radsafe ; yuan-chi luan ; radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl ; shliu at iner.gov.tw 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 9:25 AM
  Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Re: Radiation deficiency remediation


  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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Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Re: Radiation deficiency remediation


  Some answers to questions regarding RDS (Radiation Deficiency Syndrome)

Q: What is the optimal dose for humans?
A: Optimal dose would be subject to individual differences, but would
    likely
  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.

Q: How to identify those with radiation deficiency?
A: Just about everybody, except perhaps residents of Ramsar or Kerala.
    (see
  previous answer)

Q: How about Potassium for supplementary radiation?
A: No good! Specific activity level too low for internal application
    (would
  need too much)--- also could screw up electrolyte
      balance. For external, also not good---see discussion by Howard Long

Q: Just move to Denver?
A: Why bother. It would only get you a small fraction of the way toward
optimal dose level.

Q: X-rays?
A; Not uniform, inconvenient, and expensive

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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