[ RadSafe ] nuclear weapons impact thread

[John Jacobus]

Interesting that Kodac had geiger counters at their
film plants.  

--- Susan Gawarecki <loc at icx.net> wrote:
> 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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-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com

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