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- From: jamesh@aifh.ed.ac.uk (James Hammerton)
- Newsgroups: alt.activism.d,talk.environment,sci.environment
- Subject: Re: 11/92 interview w/Dr. Ernest J. Sternglass, author of "Secret Fallout"
- Keywords: someone hasn't been taking their Alzeimer's medicine
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.194938@aifh.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 19:49:38 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.152046.8384@mont.cs.missouri.edu> <1993Jan20.191653.18483@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <1993Jan21.015635.18905@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan21.015635.18905@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>,
- constant@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Tino) writes:
- # >>> EJS: We now estimate a few hundred thousand people have already
- died
- # >>> as a result of Three Mile Island and that in the United States
- *alone*,
- # >
- # According to this calculation, there should be NO ONE ALIVE IN THE U.S.,
- due
- # to natural background radiation.
- #
- # Here's the numbers:
- #
- # The collective dose of TMI on the U.S.: 3300 person-rem (best estimate)
- # 2000-5000 person-rem (estimate
- range)
- #
- # Dr. Sternglass' "death count" from TMI: 300,000+ in 10 years
- #
- #
- #
- # The collective dose of natural radiation on U.S. in 10 years: ~700,000,000
- rem
- #
- # By Sternglass' approximation, the death count from nature:
- # 70,000,000,000 dead Americans in 10
- years
- #
- #
- # hmmmm.....
- #
-
- Just a question. Could it be that because we have evolved with natural
- background
- radiation, we can tolerate the levels that we receive from natural sources,
- but
- that any additions to this will be more lethal to us? The point being that
- these
- emissions would seem to come on top of any background stuff, and could
- therefore
- push us over a dosage which evolutionarily speaking, we have been able to deal
- with.
-
- James
-
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- * Email: jamesh@uk.ac.ed.aisb * mini-metro,then ML is the concept *
- * * car where steering is done *
- * * recursively using the gearstick. *
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