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Cure for radiation sickness found? _(Jews lead the way ...)
ynet ^ | 07.17.09 | Ronen Bergman

Posted on 07/16/2009 9:30:35 PM PDT by Flavius

Exclusive: Dramatic discovery by Jewish-American scientists could change world; anti-radiation medication proves effective, safe in tests. Further experiments to be fast tracked, FDA approval possible within 1-2 years

Ronen Bergman Published: 07.17.09, 00:18 / Israel News

Medication that can protect humans against nuclear radiation has been developed by Jewish-American scientists in cooperation with a researcher and investors from Israel. The full story behind the dramatic discovery will be published in Yedioth Ahronoth's weekend edition.

(Excerpt) Read more at ynetnews.com ...


TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: nukes; radiation
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1 posted on 07/16/2009 9:30:35 PM PDT by Flavius
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To: Flavius

Maybe they’ll use Cynthia McKinney as one of their lab rats as she’s in the klink over there. Put her to work.

And please put her in the placebo group.


2 posted on 07/16/2009 9:35:26 PM PDT by TXBlair (www.ragingelephants.org)
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To: Flavius

How... convenient.


3 posted on 07/16/2009 9:35:50 PM PDT by Starrgaizr
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To: Flavius

Good now lets get those nuclear power plants fired up.


4 posted on 07/16/2009 9:36:29 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Flavius

Something Israel could use since it is being threatened by Iran.


5 posted on 07/16/2009 9:36:38 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: TXBlair

Is she still over there ?


6 posted on 07/16/2009 9:38:04 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom King of sarcasim)
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To: al baby

I don’t know.

Here’s hoping.


7 posted on 07/16/2009 9:40:05 PM PDT by TXBlair (www.ragingelephants.org)
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To: Flavius

“Both Feinstein and Gudkov stress that the innovative drug does not provide 100% protection against radioactive damage.”

Erm... I wouldn’t go trying to make myself go glow in the dark JUST yet.


8 posted on 07/16/2009 9:40:45 PM PDT by farlander (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Parley Baer

France has had nuclear power for years... maybe the “Stupid American” IS justified.


9 posted on 07/16/2009 9:54:00 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Parley Baer
Beat me to it: and removes much of the worry from "dirty suitcase bombs" used by terrorists.

Short-range, short-term radiation will still be a problem, as will blast and thermal effects.

But still, an improvement.

Cheers!

10 posted on 07/16/2009 10:08:32 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: OneWingedShark

To be fair, we’ve had nuclear power for decades too but we’ve been limiting ours to pushing around a navy.

I was in radcon engineering training today where the instructor was talking about there being (I think it was) 6400 reactor operating years total in naval nukes without a major accident or environmental release.


11 posted on 07/16/2009 10:11:36 PM PDT by seowulf (Petraeus, cross the Rubicon.)
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To: Flavius

Ashkenazi Jews, on average the most intelligent group of people on the Earth.


12 posted on 07/16/2009 10:12:14 PM PDT by Bobalu (I AM JIM THOMPSON)
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To: Flavius

Potassium Iodide. That will protect the thyroid from radiation poisoning.Potassium iodide’s value as a radiation protective (thyroid blocking) agent was demonstrated at the time of the Chernobyl nuclear accident when Soviet authorities distributed it in a 30 km zone around the plant.


13 posted on 07/16/2009 10:15:16 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld (A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone-Henry Kissinger)
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To: seowulf

That sounds about right.
But I’m severely disappointed that the clean and efficient Nuclear-power is relatively un-embraced by the civilian world in America.


14 posted on 07/16/2009 10:16:20 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark

And if we built them today, they’d be much safer in design than the current plants that are operating.


15 posted on 07/16/2009 10:36:14 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Flavius; ExTexasRedhead

Way to go.


16 posted on 07/16/2009 10:41:40 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: TXBlair

Naughty, naughty Giggle


17 posted on 07/16/2009 10:42:11 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: Flavius
The medication works by suppressing the "suicide mechanism" of cells hit by radiation, while enabling them to recover from the radiation-induced damages that prompted them to activate the suicide mechanism in the first place.

The Suicide Mechanism is one of the body’s main defenses that prevent cancer. The damaged cell commits suicide rather than divide uncontrollably as cancer does.

Certainly it is better to be alive and have the prospect of an increased chance of cancer than die of radiation sickness. But one would have to be very vigilant to catch cancer in the early stages for the rest of ones life.

18 posted on 07/16/2009 10:53:14 PM PDT by Pontiac (Your message here.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

>And if we built them today, they’d be much safer in design than the current plants that are operating.

Indeed! It’s almost as if people still have a 60s/70s mindset about nukes... and interestingly enough, the two major radiological incidents involving nuclear reactors, Chernobyl and Three Mail island, were due to lax safety-requirements and faulty safety-equipment respectively.


19 posted on 07/16/2009 11:21:42 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Flavius

Adrenaline or hyronaline?


20 posted on 07/17/2009 12:29:37 AM PDT by tophat9000 (Obama plans to fix America like he fixed his dog)
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