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To: unclewest who wrote (21133)	3/11/2002 10:53:21 AM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

UW, I would like to buy a copy of your book too. Yes, it's important to think ahead for these situations. The Chernobyl incident was a complete disaster from that point of view. While the thyroid doses, largely from ingestion of iodine-131, were significant, particularly in infants, doses to organs other than the thyroid were much smaller with effective doses (excluding the thyroid) of about 40 mSv in Belarus and 30 mSv in Ukraine. The thyroid cancer cases which arose were, regrettably, largely avoidable. No significant measures were taken at the time to reduce exposures by distributing stable iodine or by restricting the consumption of milk and fresh leafy vegetables in the vicinity of Chernobyl. If such countermeasures had been instituted, as in Poland, it is likely that the incidence of thyroid cancer would have been much reduced. Interesting read on other aspects of the accident and related health issues... arps.org.au Here is a link on thyroid radiation prevention. beprepared.com The worst place for radioactive particles is in your body. The next important factor is distance from them. Distance (and or barriers) is the important safety factor from radiation. Here is an interesting map. downwinders.org Background radiation has been falling off since the 1960's, after above ground tests were banned. It would be nice if they kept going down. They still dig up steel from the sunken German Battle Fleet off Scapa Flow to make sensitive radiation instruments with. Modern steel still has too much background radiation in it (from the nuclear tests).