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To: LindyBill who wrote (78037)	10/16/2004 7:03:11 AM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793846

"I don't think it would kill anybody," says Dr Theodore Rockwell, an authority on radiation, in an interview for the series. "You'll have trouble finding a serious report that would claim otherwise." The American department of energy, Rockwell continues, has simulated a dirty bomb explosion, "and they calculated that the most exposed individual would get a fairly high dose [of radiation], not life-threatening." And even this minor threat is open to question. The test assumed that no one fled the explosion for one year. Making a film to educate the public by suggesting that a fairly high dose [of radiation], is not life-threatening is preposterous. Dr Sternglass, professor emeritus of radiological physics at the University of Pittsburgh, has done continuous, on-going, precise, and detailed studies of the human cost (in terms of lives lost and illnesses suffered) from the relatively minor airborne nuclear release at Three-Mile Island. While researching fallout zone calculations and government reactions to fallout for my first and another book (I have yet to write), I read some of Dr Sternglass' work. His was the only comprehensive study I could find. The multi-national Chernobyl studies are primitive in comparison. Reading these studies, and analyzing the attendant government actions and reactions, and lack thereof, motivated me to design and invent the simple but effective "one-minute fallout zone calculator" and write instructions for my children and grandchildren on how to use it to evacuate themselves from fallout zones. No reasonable person who looks at the human costs of nuclear fallout in Japan, Three-mile Island, and Chernobyl could possibly come to the conclusion that, even in minor doses, it is less than extremely harmful at best and deadly at worst. Radiological fallout is a sneaky, tricky and dirty hazard. Unlike wind, rain, fire, smoke, noise, etc., it is not discernible to our senses. Without on-scene instrumention, there is no way to compute an individual dose. Field tests with the instruments have shown that individuals in close proximity to each other can be exposed to widely varying doses. Perhaps the most important thing to know is that the Sternglass studies clearly prove that pregnant women and small children are highly susceptible to even low doses of radioligical exposure. For more information, this is a good start. ki4u.com unclewest