RE: Irradiated Golf Balls

["Lamothe, Emelie" <lamothee@aecl.ca>]

Bernie is perhaps one of the most respected researchers, health physicists
and Radon myth debunker in the Western world.  He is also very active in
responding to 30 sec. misinformation and badly interpreted information in
the media in the US.  Often took on the EPA and won.

Emelie

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> From: 	Bernard L Cohen[SMTP:blc+@pitt.edu]
> Reply To: 	radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
> Sent: 	Thursday, October 28, 1999 10:01 AM
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> Subject: 	RE: Irradiated Golf Balls
> 
> 
> > If I remember correctly they were getting about 1 megarad.  In the one
> > test I ran, with increasing dose the balls got more and more yellow.
> 
> 	-There is nothing wrong with yellow golf balls. I use them all the
> time
> 
> 
> Bernard L. Cohen
> Physics Dept.
> University of Pittsburgh
> Pittsburgh, PA 15260
> Tel: (412)624-9245
> Fax: (412)624-9163
> e-mail: blc+@pitt.edu
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