Re[2]: good nuke news

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     Her name is Dr. Margaret Maxey and she really is a dynamic and well 
     versed proponent of "sensible" radiation protection.  One point she 
     made that really sunk home with me is that the amount of money a 
     nuclear plant spends on preventing one theoretical cancer could save 
     several hundred lives by providing mammography and pap smears to women 
     at risk at no cost (free!!).  But this is again not bad nuclear news 
     and isn't picked up by the press.
     
     John Van Horn
     
     This is my own opinion and not that of my employer and all the rest of 
     the usual disclaimers.
     
     "Smile it keeps people wondering what you know"


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Subject: Re: good nuke news
Author:  radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu at INTERNET
Date:    4/9/96 12:17 PM


     Okay, I can't stand it.  They are not going to be followed cause there 
     ain't no press in healthy people who are not dying from Plut 
     poisoning.  Many years ago, Dr. Maxey, (can't remember her first name 
     but she is one cracker jack in LLRW issues) said that plutonium is 
     just like sperm.  Of course, theoretically, one pound could kill every 
     man, woman and child on the earth.  She went on to say that one male 
     ejaculation contained enough sperm to impregnate every fertile woman 
     in america.  The problem in both instances is distribution.
     
     Maybe the press should lock onto this.  Got to be some bad press 
     somewhere in this concept.
     
     I bid you peace,
     
     Ron Goodwin
     
     
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Subject: good nuke news
Author:  radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu at Internet 
Date:    4/9/96 11:22 AM
     
     
A while back on commented on a press article refering to all the 
cancer deaths from Chernobyl which appeared about the same time as a 
thread here about the lack of cancers from Chernobyl.  Everyone 
agreed about the pervasive media bias.
    I thought I'd mention the article I saw in Sunday's paper about 
workers at Los Alamos.  It described how they ingested, injected, and 
otherwise got infused with plutonium, and how they have been studied 
ever since.  Seems as though their health is really good.  One 
individual was quoted as saying how mad he was that he kept hearing 
this lie about one speck of plutonium being enough to wipe out everyone 
on earth.  Sounds like good press to me.  On the other hand..
    The article also said that the paltry few thousands the 
government has been spending to follow this group is being ended.  Is 
it because a) the group is too small to be statistically significant 
and is therefore not valuable, or b) just a random victim of budget 
cutting fever in Washington, or c) they're not getting sick from 
radiation.
     
dgilmore@navajo.astate.edu
     
David F. Gilmore,
Assistant Professor of          0  0
Environmental Biology            __    "have a day" 
Arkansas State University