[ RadSafe ] CORRECTION DU hormesis?

[howard long]

It is 0.5 mrem/hour that I read 1 cm inside my part-thorium belt, NOT 500 mrem/hr.
Note that I made the same error wth ambient "15 mrem/hr" (1,000x actual)
 My misstatement must have been from mental block of the decimal and zeros when reading the palmRAD. That error is unlikely when monitoring exposures with an all-too-possible dirty bonb.
 
Todd, you are correct. The dose I believe would give best hormesis is about 1 mrad/hr for 8 hours a day for full body radiation to receive about 4 rad/year. This is more than the NSworkers received (0.5 rad) but much less than the Taiwan apt dwellers.
 
 Local exposure with the belt I'm trying because U ore was not readily available in quantity to put under a bed for whole body exposure. So far, the 5 lb belt is a nuisance I don't expect to be repeated. It will take 50 rad locally and repeatedly to increase blood supply at inflammation like bursitis or gangrene, to give prompt improvement useful for LDR treatment
 
Publicity of hormesis may reduce panic with public exposure. Erroneous current belief is that  a little radiation increases cancer risk, although the opposite is true.
 
Howard Long 
  

John Jacobus <crispy_bird at yahoo.com> wrote:

And why would you want to expose the skin to 500
mrem/hr? How did you measure this dose rate? Is this
a deep or shallow dose rate? (I am assuming you know
the difference.)

You may want to check with some radiation oncologists
about protracted skin damage. My understanding is that
when you get up to about 30 Gy (3000 rad) you start to
see effects like dermal atrophy, etc. 

--- howard long wrote:

> DU "Poison Dust" sounds like just what I need for my
> hormesis belt.
> 
> To raise my exposure from the ambient 15 mrem/hr,
> and have the benefits of the Taiwan apt dwellers
> (Chen, Luan, JAm PsMar 2004), 1/6 the cancer, or the
> nuclear shipyard workers,( 0.76 mortality rate when
> extra 0.5 rem), I've been wearing a 5 lb belt of
> used welding rods, 2% thorium. I can get up to 500
> mrem/h on about 500scm of skin that way.
> 
> Who knows the typical radiation of DU on contact and
> at, say 10 cm?
> 
> Howard Long 
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