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   From: gossg@gossg.org   
      
   spike1@freenet.co.uk wrote:   
      
   >And verily, didst J G Miller  hastily babble thusly:   
   >> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:54:06 +0000, Scott Lurndal wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> and the radiation from the latter is near background.   
   >>   
   >> And as BNFL used to imply, a little radiation is good for you.   
   >>   
   >> (Except it is not, and watch out for those cosmic rays ...)   
   >   
   >Actually, a LITTLE radiation *is* good for you.   
   >They did experiments with a zero radiation environment (probably on rats,   
   >can't remember now) and the control rats lived longer.   
   >   
   >We evolved with background radiation, it's part of our environment and it   
   >seems that removing it can cause problems with DNA. As if DNA "expects" to   
   >be damaged and the repair mechanisms in cells with nothing to do can go   
   >cockeyed. DNA does get minor repairs to it as it divides.   
      
   There was a batch of Taiwanese apartment buildings where the   
   reinforcing rods were made of recycled material accidentally including   
   a cobalt-60 supply.   
   http://www.connectsavannah.com/news/article/101935/   
   www.jpands.org/vol9no1/chen.pdf   
      
   "Based on the observed seven cancer deaths, the cancer   
   mortality rate for this population was assessed to be 3.5 per   
   100,000 person-years. Three children were born with congenital   
   heart malformations, indicating a prevalence rate of 1.5 cases per   
   1,000 children under age 19.   
      
   The average spontaneous cancer death rate in the general   
   population of Taiwan over these 20 years is 116 persons per   
   100,000 person-years. Based upon partial official statistics and   
   hospital experience, the prevalence rate of congenital   
   malformation is 23 cases per 1,000 children."   
   --   
   Tomorrow is today already.   
   Greg Goss, 1989-01-27   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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