RE: Cool Fact: Radioactive People

["Heinmiller, Bruce" <heinmillerb@aecl.ca>]

Apparently, radsafe does not accept a posting beginning with UNSCEAR.  Let's
try it with my previous posting attached.

Bruce Heinmiller
heinmillerb@aecl.ca

> ----------
> From: 	Heinmiller, Bruce
> Sent: 	Friday, December 17, 1999 12:45 PM
> To: 	'radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu'
> Subject: 	RE: Cool Fact: Radioactive People
> 
> UNSCEAR gives world-population-average data that are significantly lower,
> both for dose from natural radiation and for dose of anthropogenic
> (largely medical) origin.  I believe the referred-to data cited have been
> taken from NCRP reports that apply only to the population of the U.S.A.
> The chief difference between natural dose for Americans (cited by NCRP)
> and the world average (cited by UNSCEAR) is attributable to the difference
> in the estimated doses from radon progeny.  I haven't looked lately, but I
> believe this difference is about 0.8 mSv/y.
> 
> Bruce Heinmiller CHP
> heinmillerb@aecl.ca
> 
> 	----------
> 	From: 	Zack Clayton[SMTP:zack.clayton@epa.state.oh.us]
> 	Reply To: 	radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
> 	Sent: 	Friday, December 17, 1999 11:58 AM
> 	To: 	Multiple recipients of list
> 	Subject: 	RE: Cool Fact: Radioactive People
> 
> 	Regarding this statement:
> 
> 	One is that "Americans" should be substituted for "humans" below,
> for the 3-
> 	to 4-mSv dose to be substantiated.
> 
> 	Does this imply that Americans have a different value for internal
> potassium from other North Americans/ Countries?  Or, that nobody else has
> been bothered enough by this to measure their internal dose?   
> 
> 
> 
> 	Zack Clayton
> 	Ohio EPA - DERR
> 	email:  zack.clayton@epa.state.oh.us
> 	voice:  614-644-3066
> 	fax:        614-460-8249
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