[ RadSafe ] Hospital emergency response and RDD waste managem ent

[dckosloff at firstenergycorp.com]

Perhaps it is t;ime to start telling the general population the truth about
the abundance of radioactive materials in the environment and in their own
bodies.  Like potassium 40 and carbon 14.   Also it may be time for
individuals (eg, authors of chemistry and environmental "science"
textbooks) and organizations to be more aggressive in exposing the liars
among the anti-nukes.  Some (certainly not all) government agencies could
even become responsible government agencies.  Hey, it could happen.

The Consumers Union did a little of this indirectly in its June 1991
"Consumer Reports On Health" newsletter in an article called "Fear of
Flying: Cosmic Radiation".  But that was in response to the sale of an
"Anti-Radiation Kit for Air Travelers".   The article did point out that
Americans, on average, receive about 40 mrem per year from food and water.
Permission to reprint the article for non-commercial purposes may be
requested from Permissions, Consumers Union, 101 Truman Ave., YONKERS NY
10703-1057.

In the interim it might be advisable for all potential decontamination
sites to have small sealed containers of sodium-free salt similar to the
salt substitute packages that are sold in grocery stores.  These are
generally small blue cylinders about 3 inches high with a diameter of about
one inch.  They are generally located on the store shelves next to the
regular salt.  It would be easy to show that a decontaminated or
never-contaminated person showed a smaller meter response than some salt
substitute intended for human consumption.  Potassium dietary supplements
might also work, but I don't know about those because I have never checked
them with a meter.

It might also be helpful if nuclear power plant training departments
stopped trying to scare radiation workers with disinformation.  For
example, a radworker training course that I once attended emphasized the
assertion that ALL of the radium dial painters who tongue tipped their
brushes died prematurely from cancer.

Don Kosloff
Perry OH and Shippingport PA




                                                                                                                                       
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<SNIP>
many of those that "think" they are contaminated are
going to keep thinking that even with monitoring and the like and that in
and
of itself presents a problem for the response and medical community.




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