This is consistent with what I suggest is the case: one can get cancer by being exposed to radiation. One can be exposed to radiation by being irradiated by an external source (e.g. an x-ray machine) or by inhaling or ingesting a radioactive source, as the uranium miners, in which case the parts of the body where the radioactive material lodged becomes the source of radiation.
It is sad to hear of those children and others exposed. Hard to realize that at one time exposure to radiation was considered beneficial, and there were spas where one could go for one's health and be exposed. I had some dealings with the asbestos industry a few years ago. We had developed a process that de-toxified asbestos fibers. The industry had no interest in the process. As one plant manager told me: when the law suits start coming in, we'll put a padlock on the gate and walk away. Meanwhile he was puffing away on a cigarette, not realizing that only a year or two later the linkage between cancer and the dual exposure to asbestos and smoking would be published. I think back to that fellow from time to time. Did he ever think back to his own words, and apply their callousness to his own fate? Lawry > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ray Evans > Harrell > Sent: Fri, May 30, 2003 8:33 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Futurework] Lovely low level radiation? Proposal for new > Whitehouse dinnerware > > > On the other hand ambiant radiation in stone houses can give some people > cancer. When the Navajo were going into the Uranium mines the > owners were > told, by the government, to warn the miners to wear masks because of the > cancer caused by the radioactive dust. The owners knew no one > would work > if they told them so they didn't. Now all of them are dead. > They would > be in their sixties now as am I. The water runoff from the tailings > created a beautiful clear blue pool where the children were > allowed to swim. > Now those children have cancer or are dead. They must have > thought Indians > were Chimpanzees. > > REH > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lawrence DeBivort" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 7:23 PM > Subject: RE: [Futurework] Lovely low level radiation? Proposal for new > Whitehouse dinnerware > > > > I would guess that if uranium miners are radioactive, it would > be because > > they inhaled radioactive particles that are embedded in their lungs. But > > irradiated food does not take in any radioactive particles, as I > understand > > it: it just receives radiation that kills germs (I guess?) but is left > > uncontaminated itself, after the exposure. E.g. when I have an > x-ray, I am > > not left contaminated. If I inhale a plutonium particle, I am in serious > > trouble. > > > > Cheers, > > L > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brad > > > McCormick, Ed.D. > > > Sent: Fri, May 30, 2003 6:23 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Cc: William B Ward; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: [Futurework] Lovely low level radiation? Proposal for new > > > Whitehouse dinnerware > > > > > > > > > Lawrence DeBivort wrote: > > > > I don't think that irradiated food becomes itself > > > radioactive... Am I wrong? > > > [snip] > > > That's certainly what I thought. They still need street lights in > > > Hiroshima.... Uranium miners, however, are bad news not just > > > for themselves but for everyone who spends much time around them. > > > > > > And, while we're at it -- "the lady doth protest too much", > > > again: > > > > > > George W Bush whines on and on about somebody maybe > > > detonating a "dirty [nuclear] bomb" here in the US, whereas > > > the U.S. military uses depleted uranium artillery > > > shells everywhere we go. > > > > > > I think George W Bush should > > > commission new dinnerware for the Whitehouse: Made > > > of depleted uranium! (Remember the mayor in the movie > > > Jaws going in the water to prove it was safe, and the > > > deputy mayor going in too, not because he > > > thought it was safe, but because he feared losing > > > his job if he didn't.) > > > > > > \brad mccormick > > > > > > -- > > > Let your light so shine before men, > > > that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) > > > > > > Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) > > > > > > <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Futurework mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Futurework mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
