[ RadSafe ] BEIR VII

[John Jacobus]

Interesting comments but incomplete.  We can measure
the radiation levels, but what about the cancer rates?
 Do high background radiation levels lead to more
cancers, fewer cancer, or neither.  Enquiring minds
what to know.

--- Doug Aitken <daitken at sugar-land.oilfield.slb.com>
wrote:

> At 03:42 PM 6/30/2005, Michael, Joey L wrote:
> >
> >Just curious.  What is the official number for
> background?  It seems to
> >me that there has to be a threshold (the threshold
> is the value of
> >background).  Realisticly I know it is a range and
> depends on your
> >location etc.  So within the range of background
> for various locations,
> >it seems that LNT would have to fall apart.
> 
> When talking about this interesting topic, I like to
> use some of the 
> information from:
> http://ns.taishitsu.or.jp/radiation/index-e.html
> 
> Funny that those deluded souls lying on the beach in
> Brazil or in the pools 
> in Ramsar are believing in the benefits, when they
> are "in fact" killing 
> themselves......... <G>
> 
> Regards
> Doug


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"Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea and never shrinks back to its original proportion." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com


		
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