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You should also read the argument set off by Ann Coulter's attack on
"nuclear health hysteria" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.anncoulter.com/"><http://www.anncoulter.com/></a>:<br>
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"In response to my column last week about hormesis -- the theory
that some radiation can be beneficial to humans -- liberals reacted
with their usual open-minded examination of the facts..." <br>
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On 3/27/11 12:05 PM, Morton K. Brussel wrote:
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cite="mid:F6B56394-98E1-4CE5-B504-F66FFB38D9F2@illinois.edu"
type="cite">For those interested, entranced or obsessed, three
references (below). Partial antidotes to nuclear health hysteria.
The abstracts to these give the basic information. Consult
wikipedia for more…[Health and nuclear radiation]
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<div>Quoting a friend physicist from Argonne National Laboratory:</div>
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<div><font size="3"> There are many reputable papers on this
subject. I <br>
refer you in particular to the two attached PDFs: <br>
"Nuclear Energy and Health", and "</font><font face="Arial,
Helvetica" size="3">Joint Report of <br>
he Académie des Sciences (Paris) and of the Académie <br>
Nationale de Médecine." Excerpt from the latter:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" class="cite" cite="">"<font face="Arial,
Helvetica" size="2">In summary, animal experiments show the
existence of a dose below which no excess<br>
in tumour incidence is detectable, which suggests the
existence of a practical threshold.<br>
Furthermore, most of the dose–effect relationships are not
linear but rather linear-quadratic<br>
or quadratic, and a hormesis is observed in about 40% of the
experiments. The<br>
existence of a threshold is particularly obvious following
contamination by </font>á<font face="Arial, Helvetica"
size="2">-emitter<br>
radionuclides. It is of interest that the same observation
is made in humans, because it<br>
shows that animal data can provide useful information for
humans."</font></blockquote>
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You might also be interested in this:<br>
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href="http://www.jpands.org/vol9no1/chen.pdf"
eudora="autourl">http://www.jpands.org/vol9no1/chen.pdf</a>. </font></div>
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<div style="font-size: 14px;"><font style="font-size: 12px;"
face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2">--mkb</font></div>
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