This brings up a very good question: Given the public fear of nuclear power
and radiation, why is there not a Geiger counter in every home?

The irrational fear of radiation, coupled with the total lack of any
reasonable action to protect ones self from it just...

Grrrrr!

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James.
 
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu 
> [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of Russell McMahon
> Sent: 2006 Sep 04, Mon 01:52
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: Re: [OT] On Nuclear power
> 
> Please don't eat the sand :-).
> 
> I, also, in their situation, would have liked an investigation to " 
> ... locate the source of the radioactive particles found in 
> the general environment around the Dounreay Nuclear 
> Establishment  ...", irregardless of how health affecting 
> they might be. If you can encounter the odd "radioactive 
> particle" lying around the place without visible means of 
> support (even without $100k in the trunk), and the kids in 
> Thurso already have more cancers than anyone can explain 
> (albeit not very many extra in absolute terms) then being 
> able to put a confident ceiling on such happenings would seem 
> to be a priority.
> 
> 
>         Russell
> 
> 
>         http://www.comare.org.uk/documents/COMARE1-6reports.pdf
> 
> In our Sixth Report we summarised the work undertaken since 
> 1995 and up until October 1998, to locate the source of the 
> radioactive particles found in the general environment around 
> the Dounreay Nuclear Establishment and reconsider the 
> possible health implications of encountering these particles. 
> We have also considered whether ingestion of these particles 
> could be associated with the previously reported excess of 
> leukaemia and NHL in young people living in Thurso. We noted 
> that if individuals were to ingest particles with activities 
> at the top of the range of those particles already found on 
> the Dounreay foreshore, very serious acute radiation effects 
> would occur. However, at that time very few particles had 
> been found on the publicly accessible beach at Sandside Bay 
> and all were of them were of low activity. We concluded that 
> an implausibly large number of these particles would have 
> needed to be ingested to have given rise to the known level 
> of childhood leukaemia in the area around Dounreay. We 
> recommended increased and regular and improved beach 
> monitoring in the area to ensure any particles coming ashore 
> could be found and removed. 
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