[ RadSafe ] Re: Radiation deficiency remediation

[Bernard Cohen]

I can't help you on this question. I am confident that tritium would be 
more efficiently delivered to the body by ingesting it as water than by 
inhaling it as a gas, but I don't know by what factor.

Jay Caplan wrote:

> 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 <mailto:blc+ at pitt.edu>
>     To: Jay Caplan <mailto:uniqueproducts at comcast.net>
>     Cc: dckosloff at firstenergycorp.com
>     <mailto:dckosloff at firstenergycorp.com> ; howard long
>     <mailto:hflong at pacbell.net> ; John Jacobus
>     <mailto:crispy_bird at yahoo.com> ; jjcohen
>     <mailto:jjcohen at prodigy.net> ; radsafe <mailto:radsafe at radlab.nl>
>     ; yuan-chi luan <mailto:nbcsoc at hotmail.com> ;
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>     shliu at iner.gov.tw <mailto: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
>>
>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>From: "jjcohen" <jjcohen at prodigy.net>
>>To: "John Jacobus" <crispy_bird at yahoo.com>; "howard long"
>><hflong at pacbell.net>; <dckosloff at firstenergycorp.com>
>>Cc: "radsafe" <radsafe at radlab.nl>; "yuan-chi luan" <nbcsoc at hotmail.com>;
>><radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl>; <uniqueproducts at comcast.net>;
>><shliu at iner.gov.tw>
>>Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 4:26 PM
>>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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