Radiation - Chuck

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In 1983 180 apartment building were built in Taiwan. But somehow highly

radioactive Cobalt-60 was mixed into the concrete. The 10,000 people who lived

in these apartments for 9-20 years received an average of 74 millesieverts (mSv)

of radiation a year (a typical catheter ablation using fluoroscopy produces

around 15 mSv176---non-x-ray imaging systems much less).

But cancer rates of people living in these highly radioactive buildings were

3.6% of prevailing Taiwanese rates. This is a reduction in cancer rates of

96.4%. This phenomena is perhaps explained by the theory of hormesis which holds

that intermediate levels of radioactivity actually stimulate life and improve

health.

http://www.jpands.org/vol9no1/chen.pdf

http://www.ecolo.org/documents_in_english/taiwan-cobalt-60-apartment-04.htm

(Author's Note: The nuclear theory that any level of radiation is cumulatively

damaging may not be valid [the " Linear No Threshold [LNT} " theory.] The levels

of radiation received during a typical catheter ablation may not be dangerous,

but may even be healthful.)

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