RE: Nuclear radiation more dangerous than thought: scientist

[Franz Schoenhofer <schoenho@via.at>]

At 21:28 16.07.98 -0500, you wrote:
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>I wonder, should we just legally ban all radiation from existence and go
>live back in caves?  But, again, caves in granite rock will "give rise
>to radiation exposure" from gamma-radiation, not even speaking about
>radon, - and, therefore, it will be very dangerous to live in them...  
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Nick,

Please do not forget the compulsory application of the K-40 separator which
will extract all K-40 from food! Living in caves will reduce on the other
side the cosmic ray component - careful optimization would therefore be
necessary. 

Seriously, I do not regard 50 mSv (the "doubling dose" of .....) as
low-level radiation.

Franz

 




Franz Schoenhofer
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