Showing posts with label radiation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label radiation. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 26, 2016

The Environmental Test Lab II

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The unfortunate Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki provide us with a test lab without peer. Thousands of citizens of all ages were ex...
Saturday, April 23, 2016

Epilogue

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Writing a book seems to be much like building a house, where the final trimming and painting seems to take as much time as the rest of the p...
Friday, April 15, 2016

Yes, You Can Be Too Careful (Part 2)

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Bernard Cohen reports, in his book The Nuclear Energy Option , [Plenum Press, New York, 1990] that $100,000 in medical treatments or highway...
Monday, April 11, 2016

Where the Terrorists Have Already Won

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In 1978, Jimmy Carter reneged on the opening of a reprocessing plant that was nearing completion in Barnwell, South Carolina. This facility ...
Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Remedial Acryonyms

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There are a couple abbreviations used in Table 13 and/or Figure 32 that may need reminders. SMR  stands for standardized mortality ratio  an...
Sunday, March 13, 2016

Take Two Cobalt 60s & Call Me in the Morning

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If we really believed in the LNT, we would have to conclude that routine use of X-rays for medical purposes would cause 100,000 deaths each ...
Monday, February 22, 2016

Very Strange - But I Don't Make the Data; I Just Report Them

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The next figure is about mice that were not subjected to radiation but who had fathers that had been exposed prior to becoming a mouse-paren...
Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Effects of Radiation on Cancer - Leukemia Mortality

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Of the myriad varieties of cancer, leukemia is most often considered to be associated with exposure to ionizing radiation, so we'll look...
Thursday, February 11, 2016

Rummaging Through the Stacks

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Where the radiation level is greater, cancer risk is invariably less . [Nambi and Soman. Further observations on environmental radiation and...
Friday, February 5, 2016

Chernobyl - Symbol of Unconcerned Totalitarianism

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One can hardly compare the Chernobyl fire in the Ukraine to the alleged "Three Mile Island disaster" in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. ...
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Getting a Handle on Radiation Doses

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How many atomic explosions in our cities would you accept before deciding that nuclear power is not safe - no complexities, just a number? -...
Saturday, January 16, 2016

Before Going on to Radiation ...

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Let's look at some common examples of where we see hormesis in humans. Vitamins and trace minerals clearly show the difference a dose...
Sunday, January 10, 2016

The Radiation Death Toll

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The total number of people known (or suspected by me) to have been killed directly by exposure to radiation is: One fisherman killed by b...
Saturday, January 9, 2016

Unclean!

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On September 13, 1987, two thieves entered an abandoned clinic in Goiania, State of Goia, Brazil, and dismantled a machine used for radiatio...
Thursday, January 7, 2016

A "Media Created" Fear?

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Dr. Bernard Cohen - who was group leader for cyclotron research at Oak Ridge about the same time I was researching my toes in the shoe store...
Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Radiation: Fear Versus Reality

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Some observers believe there will be a million people with direct and backup assignments to guard the nuclear industry by the year 2000. - R...
Monday, January 4, 2016

Because They Say So, That's Why

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The U.S. government plans to spend $85 billion (about $1,000 per U.S. family) in cleaning up a single radioactive site at Hanford, Washingto...
Saturday, January 2, 2016

Collective Dose

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You are not going to believe a concept that has guided our radiation-protection formulators for the past forty or fifty years. But, as my he...
Friday, January 1, 2016

Three Mile Island Reunion

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The subject of radiation causing mutations has been a favorite topic for cartoonists and comedy writers, as evidenced by the "Cone He...