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Any extra nuclear radiation is a grave danger

There is no baseline population of unaffected people anymore…Any additional dose of highly efficient ionising radiation (alpha and beta) when delivered internally is a grave risk to modern humans.

What’s a safe dose of radiation? Paul Langley’s Nuclear History Blog, 19 May 2010,  Depends where it the source is and what cell it is dosing. How often that cell is dividing and whether succeeding generations from that cell are similarly dosed by an adjacent internal emitter (hot particle). In such a case, no amount of external environmental monitoring will detect the threat. Which is probably why Dr Johnson suggested surveying PEOPLE rather then the environment years after the contamination events.

His suggestion was never taken up. Disease is a human event. We are part of the environment and if the external environment is poisoned, we are too. And we concentrate that poison…

…if Hiroshima had not happened in August 1945 but happened tomorrow instead, many more outside the blast zone would die. For the modern world is dosed up and primed. The buckets of water which represent our allowable life time dose are far fuller now than they were for the people of 1945. Some say a single track of alpha through a cell, or a few of beta can start lethal disease.

Others disagree. Still others say low dose exposures are beneficial…… Cronkite observed of the Marshall Islanders that at the same dose, some people died and some people lived. Later it was found many who survived had their lives cut short some years later……..
There is no baseline population of unaffected people anymore. Project Sunshine established that. Any additional dose of highly efficient ionising radiation (alpha and beta) when delivered internally is a grave risk to modern humans. I do not say avoid needed x rays for medical reasons. That’s foolish and wrong headed. Avoid anything that is not needed.

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May 19, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, health | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, radiation, radioactive