RE: dangerous activities

["Lavera, Ron" <Ron.Lavera@nypa.gov>]

I think that you miss the point.  That is NATURAL RADIATION and by
definition it is good as opposed to man made radiation for
industrial/scientific ( as opposed to medical treatment ) which is BAD...BAD
RADIATION <:-)


...   mine and mine alone ...

Ron LaVera
Lavera.r@nypa.gov

		-----Original Message-----
		From:	Michael Stabin [mailto:stabin@npd.ufpe.br]
		Sent:	Thursday, August 19, 1999 8:09 AM
		To:	Multiple recipients of list
		Subject:	dangerous activities

		> YEAR 2000:  BUG COULD POSE MAJOR PROBLEM -- OP-ED; MORE
		>The Year 2000 computer problem could cause a "catastrophe"
		>at any of the world's 433 nuclear plants, writes Standing
for
		>Truth About Radiation Foundation Pres. Helen M. Caldicott
in a
		>Los Angeles Timesop-ed .

		Someone should really warn these reporters about the serious
danger they are
		in when talking to people such as Caldicott.  Do they
realize that during
		this entire interview, they were sitting close to a person
with perhaps 7
		*million* mBq of radioactivity in her body, much of which
was K-40, emitting
		gamma rays of approximately 1.5 *million* electron volts of
energy in every
		direction, which were ripping through the air, the body of
the interviewer,
		the nearby building materials, and often escaping into the
outside
		environment, where small children could have been present?
Further, this
		deadly radiation inside of Caldicott has an incredibly long
half-life of 1.3
		E 9 years, which means that this woman will remain a hazard
for generations
		and generations to come?  Something should be done about
this, and soon.

		The report on childhood leukemia was certainly encouraging,
though (tongue
		now out of cheek).  Not so much in that it could help or
hurt any particular
		industry, but that these folks seem pretty confident that
there has been a
		finding, and that they may have identified an actual
mechanism related to
		cancer.  Not only that, but that there could be the
possibility of remedial
		action.  Good news, it would seem.


		Michael Stabin, PhD, CHP
		Departamento de Energia Nuclear/UFPE
		Av. Prof. Luiz Freire, 1000 - Cidade Universitaria
		CEP 50740 - 540
		Recife - PE
		Brazil
		Phone 55-81-271-8251 or 8252 or 8253
		Fax  55-81-271-8250
		E-mail stabin@npd.ufpe.br


	
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