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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; ">Gennaro: Here's a much bigger "</span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">environmental stressor</font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; ">" than EMF for those that stood or sat on a Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL) hot spot or live[d] in its fallout zone since the 1940's:</span><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; "><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><b><u><font size="4" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">17 to 214
Minutes To Reach 50 Miliserverts (mSv)<o:p></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA"> A person standing on BNL hot-spot </span><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:20.5pt;
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EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">SB37A-C would receive a dose equal to
the EPA’s Evacuation Standard of <b><span style="font-weight:bold">50 mSv/yr</span></b>
in about <span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">17 minutes</span>
from Cs-137 alone. At the corresponding average dose of 0.13 Billion Bq/kg, it
would take only <span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">214
minutes</span> to for a person to receive a <b><span style="font-weight:bold">50
mSv dose</span></b>, compared to a Fukushima hot-spot that would deliver this
dose <span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">4 months</span>,
according estimates by Shih-Yew Chen of Argonne National Laboratory. A
Cherynobl hot-spot would deliver the same dose in about <span style="background:
yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">6.4 months</span> because Cs-137 fallout levels in
some villages near Chernobyl reached 5 million Bq/m<sup>2 </sup>[135 million
pCi/m<sup>2</sup>]; about 63% of Fukishima’s. (“</span><font size="3" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:13.5pt;
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AR-SA"><a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/03/japan-soil-measurements-surprisingly.html?rss=1"><i><span style="font-style:italic">Japan Soil Measurements Surprisingly High</span></i></a>”
</span></font><span class="byline"><i><font size="3" color="#666666"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:6.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:"Times New Roman";
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font-style:italic"><a href="mailto:jkaiser@aaas.org">Jocelyn Kaiser</a>”,</span></font></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><font size="3" color="#666666"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:6.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:"Times New Roman";
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AR-SA">3/25/11)</span></font></span></font></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666"> </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666"> Vegans like you and Sanjay should be very concerned for reasons in the following </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 32px; font-weight: bold; "><b style="mso-ansi-font-weight:
normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:24.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:
normal">Comment Re: </span></font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:24.0pt;font-family:Arial">: “Cuomo:
State to toss back fishing license feeo, by </span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;font-family:
Arial">MARK HARRINGTON (Newsday, 8/6/11): </span></font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; ">Thank you Governor Cuomo for blocking mindless DEC studies; given the
DEC has wasted millions in taxpayer dollars secretly testing radioactive marine
life and deer that flee the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), yet not one
dollar was used to educate or warn hunters and an unsuspecting public not to
eat wildlife or farm produce within<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>BNL's fallout zone.</span></div>
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</span>In fact, on 9 January 2002 a dazed BNL deer fled for its life; only to
be killed by a vehicle. The DEC found it contained a huge level of Cesium-137
(Cs-137) 21,000 pCi/kg =9,534 pCi per pound. That’s about 1.6 times the legal
limit of 500 becquerels per kilogram (13,500 pCi/kg or 6,129 pCi per pound).
[1]<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
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</span>According to BNL's Site Environmental Reports (SERs) for 1997 to 2010
@<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><a href="http://www.bnl.gov/ewms/ser/default.asp">www.bnl.gov/ewms/ser/default.asp</a>,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>soil contaminated with Cs-137 was used for
landscaping, thereby creating radioactive vegetation eaten by deer and other
wildlife. Yet the DEC failed to warn us against eating LI animals or farm
produce contaminated by decades of Cs-137 fallout from BNL <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
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</span>No state or federal official issued evacuation orders, yet U.S.
officials advised Americans to evacuate 12 to 19 miles from Fukushima --and the
whole World was informed last month that meat from 11 cows shipped to Tokyo
from Fukushima prefecture was found to have 3 to 6 times the legal limit of 500
becquerels per kilogram [13,500 pCi/kg or 6,129 pCi per pound] of radioactive
cesium. (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesium-137#cite_note-4">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesium-137#cite_note-4</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
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</span>But the DEC failed to warn LI hunters not to eat deer containing up to
778 becquerels per kilogram. Why?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; ">[1] "IN BRIEF;
Brookhaven Deer Shows High Radiation", By Valerie Cotsalas NY Times,
February 24, 2002</span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666">must be very concerned because <br></font><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; ">Carmine</div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span">gfxtechnology.com <br><br><div>> Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 13:47:48 -0400<br>> From: info@ecobrooklyn.com<br>> To: greenbuilding@lists.bioenergylists.org<br>> Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] EMF (and RF) radiation (was Re:PV Tracking)<br>> <br>> I see EMF as an environmental stressor. Car fumes, neighbour's loud<br>> music, shrieking children, bad diet, lack of exercise, chemical<br>> cleaners, VOC's, flower pollen, and a nagging partner all fall into<br>> the same category. None of them will kill you. But combined they<br>> increase the risk of genetic predispositions to emerge, such as<br>> cancer, alcoholism, diabetes etc. It's all about %. Each stressor<br>> increases % of health risk by an unknown amount.<br>> Just like there is rarely a magic bullet, there is rarely one single<br>> thing that you can point at that is causing all the suffering in your<br>> life. It is<br>> That is why I take a holistic approach and part of that is to consider<br>> EMF exposure when wiring a house. The studies all say EMF won't harm<br>> you, but I do think it could contribute to the overall harm of<br>> combined stressors.<br>> Gennaro Brooks-Church<br>> <br>> Cell: 1 347 244 3016 USA<br>> www.EcoBrooklyn.com<br>> 22 2nd St; Brooklyn, NY 11231<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Greenbuilding mailing list<br>> to Send a Message to the list, use the email address<br>> Greenbuilding@bioenergylists.org<br>> <br>> to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page<br>> http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/greenbuilding_lists.bioenergylists.org<br></div></span></div></div> </div></body>
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