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To: Grainne who wrote (21223)	5/2/1998 2:23:00 PM
From: LoLoLoLita	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

Christine, In 1986, my investing funds were just a pittance, and just had a regular cash brokerage account. The thing you have to remember with accident consequences is that ground concentration levels go down with increasing distance. There are contour maps of the radiation levels that resulted from Chernobyl immediately after the accident that can be looked at to make decisions on, say buying jam from the Czech Republic. Most of the material came down in the first 100 miles or so, and this tends to continue with distance. It might go something like this, but I'm just speculating. 50% of the stuff comes down in first 100 miles (50% still in cloud). 25% in the next 100 miles (so 25% is still in the cloud). 12.5% in the next 100 miles (so 12.5% is still in the cloud). etc. Mathematicians call this decrease geometric. So every 100 miles or so the radiation levels in the soil and crops would go down by half. This is how the results typically go when we run MACCS. But if the wind was blowing the other way, there could be nothing on the ground. Also, sometimes due to rain at a distance, there were hot spots in the middle of low-radiation areas. Finally, The plutonium and radioactive strontium (Sr-90) and cesium (Cs-137) are still a threat from food grown near Chernobyl. How near, I don't know. David P.S. If you are as averse to radiation as you seem to be, you should probably find out if you live in a high-radon area and either move or remediate your house. Also, avoid all X-rays and airplane flights. and don't visit a hospital. I have very high confidence that any of the above exposures are vastly higher than any dose you could get from eating Czech jam.