[ RadSafe ] nuclear weapons impact thread

[jjcohen]

It depends upon your religious beliefs. If you subscribe to the scriptures
according
to ICRP/NCRP (i.e.LNT) then any level of radiation above zero dose, whether
detectable or not, would cause a harmful impact to human health. If you
believe in
common sense, then doses within the range of normal background levels would
be
considered to be of no consequence.
If you accept hormesis, then a beneficial impact could result.
Jerry Cohen



----- Original Message -----
From: Susan Gawarecki <loc at icx.net>
To: RADSAFE <radsafe at radlab.nl>
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 12:57 PM
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] nuclear weapons impact thread


> Fallout from above-ground nuclear tests in Nevada and the Pacific was
> measured at Eastman Kodak facilities in Rochester, NY.  See
> http://www.brook.edu/fp/projects/nucwcost/box7_5.htm.  The real question
> is what is your definition of "impact"--detectable levels or levels that
> are high enough to harm human health?
>
> Susan Gawarecki
>
> sherman.conrad at comcast.net wrote:
>
> >There was some discussion of the impact of a nuclear weapon being 3,000
> >miles or 3,000 meters.  I don't have the source document but I believe
that
> >indeed, a detonation on the left coast could indeed deposit measureable
> >fallout attributable to the detonation on the east coast.
> >
>
>
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