On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 2:08 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
> All of these studies reference externally received radiation > No they do not. The primary source of natural background radiation is Radon gas and people breathe it. Radon is extremely radioactive and it emits alpha particles. Alpha rays can be stopped by just a few feet of air or even by the dead cells on the surface of your skin, but if the source of of the alpha particles is ingested (and it is for Radon gas) then it is by far the most damaging form of radiation to living tissue. And yet areas with high natural background radiation have fewer cancers than places with low natural background radiation. And workers who fabricate fuel rods that go into reactors inhale radioactive particles, but they have a lower cancer rate than the general population. There is zero evidence that small amounts of radiation received over a long period of time is harmful, in fact all the evidence points in the other direction. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
