Newly Posted Kaltofen APHA video

Worth watching - http://www.fairewinds.com/

There is some dialogue at the end about the risks of "whole body doses" vs "localized/hot-particle doses".

One thing I myself would like to point out is that there are ways of looking at the risk here without using any of the airplane ride/banana dose/background radiation analogies and comparisons, and that is to look at past events. For example, there is the fact that most of the Northern Hemisphere took a dusting of about 4kBq/m2 of Cs-137 (plus many other associated herbs and spices) during the 60's. We can look at that. Perhaps even a more telling example is the Chernobyl accident, where you can bet your bottom dollar that the emissions were very similar to this latest event, and use the LNT model to get some grip on what the risk might be. The "Toldem" study came to the conclusion that a deposition of Cs-137 in the 100kBq/m2 range was correlated with an 11% increase in cancer, and it is safe to assume that the level of "hot particles" associated with that event would be be the same proportionally as the Fukushima accident. This has been discussed here before at some length but it is worth repeating that these are not entirely uncharted waters and that you can make an estimation of risk without relying solely on the hotly contested modelling methods.

One more thing - I would like to throw out my own risk model - the "Winner Winner Chicken Dinner". Basically, maybe some people just breathe in an extra nasty piece of crud that hits the sweet spot and that's just it. Of course it's impossible to prove so I probably won't win the Nobel for coming up with it:).

BC 12/9