radiation fears....vistiting capitol building more hazardous than camping outside a nuclear plant
- From: abelard <abelard3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:53:32 +0200
http://www.ratical.org/radiation/JAcancer.html
"Using United States Federal Aviation Authority actuarial calculation
methods, it is shown that over 1 in 70 Japanese workers will be killed
by cancer induced by radiation during their company health checks in a
nationwide program which subjects them to the equivalent of over 2000
chest x-rays - more than the average dose received by survivors of the
Hiroshima and Nagasaki experiments.
Recently I was asked to take a barium meal esophagram, also known as a
"barium swallow" or gastric fluoroscopy. I refused after I enquired
about the intensity and dose. After a long delay, and the worrying
statement that the radiologist had to consult a book, I was told it
would be 15 millisieverts. I was told that many Japanese companies
regard gastric fluoroscopy with this, or even higher doses, as a
standard early detection test, which is repeated annually or
biannually.
This means that Japanese workers will be exposed to more radiation
than the survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki tests, who received
an average dose of 200 millisieverts.
The single fluoroscopy is equivalent to 150 chest x-rays, and 15 times
the yearly maximum exposure allowed in the United States. It greatly
exceeds the dose received by workers at high level nuclear plants. It
is equal to the exposure received by an astronaut in space for one
month (recognized hazard). But the energy is delivered to the most
vulnerable organs of the body in just a few minutes."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,21015,00.html
"Sensing the absurdity of the EPA standards, Dr. Michael Gough and I
commissioned radiation experts to measure radiation levels in the U.S.
Capitol building and compare them with the proposed Yucca Mountain
standards. The Capitol contains a great deal of granite and marble
building materials that naturally emit the same type of radiation as
spent fuel.
Our experts discovered that radiation dose rates at the Roger Williams
statue, located between the Rotunda and Senate Chamber, are up to 65
times greater than what the EPA plans to allow at Yucca Mountain.
The radiation-dose rate at the Williams statue also is up to 550
percent higher than the dose rate received at the fenceline of a nuke
plant, and about 13,000 times higher than the average annual radiation
dose from worldwide nuclear-energy production."
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