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- From: constant@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Tino)
- Subject: Re: 11/92 interview w/Dr. Ernest J. Sternglass, author of "Secret Fallout"
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.192239.10276@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
- References: <1993Jan20.191653.18483@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <1993Jan21.015635.18905@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <1993Jan22.075836.13640@truffula.sj.ca.us>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 19:22:39 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.075836.13640@truffula.sj.ca.us> cls@truffula.sj.ca.us (Cameron L. Spitzer) writes:
- >>According to this calculation, there should be NO ONE ALIVE IN THE U.S., due
- >>to natural background radiation.
- >>
- >>The collective dose of TMI on the U.S.: 3300 person-rem (best estimate)
- >> 2000-5000 person-rem (estimate range)
- >...
- >>By Sternglass' approximation, the death count from nature:
- >> 70,000,000,000 dead Americans in 10 years
- >
- >Trouble with this analysis is the "collective dose of TMI" is actually
- >unknown because the amount of radioactive material released is unknown.
- >The instruments at TMI were disabled during some releases and
- >off the scale during others.
-
- It has been established reasonably well that the only radionuclides released
- to the environment were the noble gases and I-131. No Sr, U, or Pu was
- detected in any environmental samples taken.
- The TLDs surrounding the site and in the local communities were used to
- estimate the 3300 person-rem figure as well.
-
- The articles from Sternglass gave no hard figures, just "hundreds of thousands
- dead". This is utterly false, and should give enough evidence to put him in
- a nursing home.
-
- >* Any problem soluble solely by arithmetic is unimportant.
-
- Didn't do too well in math, huh? :)
-
- Tino
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