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To: Valpal1
Even if the particulate that drifted through and deposited throughout Europe emitted small doses of gamma xrays, it poses an increased risk of developing cell mutations in humans.

Put it this way. Honey, leaving for work now, I think before I get to the office I'll stop by and get a chest xray.

Tuesday morning. Honey, off to work, love ya, on the way home I'll stop by the market and get a chest xray.

Wednesday morning...........and on and on and on.

Just because radioactive particulate emits low levels of gamma, beta or alpha rays, humans still should avoid needless exposure other than what is picked up naturally.

I think it's hilarious that the governments are reporting low risk all the while the folks scanning the population look like walking condoms.

3 posted on 03/17/2011 9:04:27 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: servantboy777

Except 20 years later all those theoretical increased risks have not produced any actual increase in mutations or cancers.

When the predicted increase is a non-occurrence then the theory is wrong. You probably should read the whole article.

“The no-threshold theory, in fact, seems to have an increasingly tenuous scientific rationale, which is why the French Academy of Science and National Academy of Medicine issued a report a few years ago blasting the theory as “not based on biological concepts of our current knowledge.”


6 posted on 03/17/2011 9:13:27 AM PDT by Valpal1 ("No clever arrangement of bad eggs ever made a good omelet." ~ C.S. Lewis)
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