Dr. "B" Began With...

"You recall from just a few days ago, we discussed in depth the myths surrounding radiation. And, how they most likely affected the mindset of the world who saw a particular movie that made its debut in 1959, dealing with nuclear radiation, fallout and nuclear war.

"The main myth that is even present to this day and has now affected the current mindset of scientists and statesmen, as well as the authors of books; the media, and the average citizen, is "There Are No Safe Levels of Radiation."

"Dr. Allen Brodsky, in his book, Actions For Survival: Saving Lives in the Immediate Hours After Release of Radioactive or Other Toxic Agents, firmly believes this is one of the prime sources of radiation myths! He points out that the media bought into this; the young people then were impressed with this impressive movie, and later became university professors, congressmen and senators in state and national governments, and this influenced our thinking and beliefs as they propounded this myth reinforced by various medias.

"As you will see from the Original Trailer, world–leaders of that time saw the movie, and this undoubtedly had to influence their thinking: 'Radiation is Bad in any form or dose!'

"Now, gather around, men, and see the Original Trailer, and see if you spot several 'affectations' from the movie that has influenced present thinking, and one of the big myths given by a main character in the movie, Fred Astaire, who plays a world–class scientist:"

 

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Gentlemen, You Have Just Seen The Trailer, & Noted The Section: 'We're All Doomed' For One of The Myths! Now, Watch This Short Collection of Myths That Are Still With Us & Affected The Current Thinking Of Writers, The Media, State, Local and National Governments.

 

 

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"Some of The Myths That Come Across From The Movie,

That Are Still With Us Today Are:

 

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• "There's No Safe Level of Radiation!"

• "Any Radiation Is dangerous!"

• "No Amount of Radiation Is Safe!"

• "Radiation Is Contagious!"

• "The Only Way Out...Is To 'Mercy Kill' Oneself & Family!"

• "Radiation Stays Forever...There Is No Such Thing As Radioactive Decay!"

• "There's No Place To Hide," such as a beneath–the–earth shelter, as in a deep mine with numerous twists beyond the opening!

• Any Action To Save Your Life...Anything You Do Is Useless. Simply 'Shut–Up' And Accept The Inevitable! You're Doomed!" 
  And That Was The Main Message...and It Still Is Promulgated Today! 

 

 

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Dr. "B" Then Said:

 

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Dr. Brodsky says, in his book, Actions For Survival:

Some scientists and physicians eminent in the investigation of biological effects of radiation in animals and in humans have not been the most careful in expressing the range of risks to the public—possibly because they are not astute in the language of probability, or chance. They have repeatedly made the statement that,

"Any Radiation Is Dangerous."

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High enough exposures to radiation would, of course, be dangerous. Above some level, where the mean whole body dose in a short time is above about 10 – 20 rem, as exposure (or dose) goes up, risk can go up. This is true for the LNT model or other proposed models of risk versus dose. Organizations that recommend safety guidance for radiation protection, and government agencies at present, assume for simplification of radiation protection practices that even very low exposures entail some (very low) risks.

Nevertheless, even with the conservative LNT assumption, recommended and regulatory limits of exposure to workers have always been based on keeping risks down to the same risk levels, or below, of accidental injury or illness exhibited in the safest industries and work situations (Brodsky 1996). Limits of public exposure have always been kept at least one-tenth below those of workers.

We discuss and deal with an enormous range of amounts of radiation exposure . . . . The word "dangerous" conveys to members of the public that they are being exposed to enough exposure to be an immediate risk to life, requiring immediate escape or protective action.

The word "any" conveys that even extremely low doses are "dangerous."

If any radiation dose was dangerous, none of us would ever exist. As noted earlier, there have been even greater exposures of the human race to natural background radiation in earlier millennia of human existence. Even without assuming hormesis, my experience in research and regulatory agencies confirms that all beneficial technologies involving radiation exposure can be, and have been, conducted with a safety record much better than for many other human activities (Waltar 2004); this is true despite other impressions often given to the public in the news and popular literature.

. . . . Even just for the natural potassium within each of our bodies for proper heart activity, a small percentage (about 0.0118 percent) of the atoms is the radioactive potassium–40 (Eisenbud and Gesell 1997). Potassium–40 is abbreviated K–40 by scientists.

This small amount of natural K–40 among the natural stable K–39 in our bodies is "radioactive"; that is, the K–40 atoms slowly transform into stable calcium–40 atoms, K–40 and K–39 atoms are so similar chemically that there is no way we can get rid of the K–40 in our bodies.

The transformation of K–40 is so slow that it takes 1.28 billion years (International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) 1983) for half a bunch of K–40 atoms to change to stable calcium–40 (Ca–40); yet, there are so many billions of trillions of K–40 atoms in our bodies (mainly among about 140 grams of potassium in muscle tissue) that each of us has about 3700 K–40 atoms disintigrating each second.

Each transformation emits beta and x radiations that are not very penetrating but contribute to about half of our self–exposure from within our bodies. (Our total self–exposure to internal naturally occurring nuclides gives us an annual dose of about 39 millirem (mrem).) In addition, about 10.7 percent of the transformations of K–40 also emit a high–energy gamma ray of 1.46 MeV energy; this gamma ray can penetrate through tissue, and only a fraction of its energy, on the average, is absorbed within our own bodies.

Therefore, when I hug my wife, I am bombarding her with some hundreds of high–energy gamma rays each second — those gamma rays that are emitted in her direction and are not absorbed in my body. However, when I hug her, she is doing about the same thing to me.

Anyway, the enormous benefit of her healthy hugs is trillions of times greater than any insignificant risk I might receive from the small exposure or dose of absorbing hundreds of gamma rays each second. I hope that my wife feels the same way. I hope that this incontrovertible fact will help indicate how absurd it is to say that, "Any radiation is dangerous."

When I was on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh, I served in 1964–1970 as Technical Director of Radiation Medicine at the Presbyterian–University Hospital. Pittsburgh, I served in 1964–1970 as Technical Director of Radiation Medicine at the Presbyterian–University Hospital.

At this hospital, I designed with my colleagues Dr. F.J. Bradley and Dr. Neil Wald, and set up, a large shielded counting room and radiochemical laboratory for measuring amounts of radioactive material in patients and workers from the nuclear industry. To calibrate my measurements, I actually used the amount of K–40 in my own body to adjust and calibrate a large scintillation counter for detecting gamma radiation "fingerprints" from radioactive materials in the bodies of workers exposed to inadvertant inhalation of radioactive materials.

I also filled a human–like plastic phantom with water and added the 140 milligrams of potassium to provide another check on the gamma ray counts. Because at the time I was about the size of an average man, my gamma ray counts and the shapes of my 1.46 MeV energy fingerprints matched those of the phantom exactly.

Thus, I also effectively measured the K–40 in my own body in this way, in comparison to the phantom. This is one way in which muscle to fat ratios are measured in humans. The gamma ray counters that I used were within a large room with walls made of pre–atomic–bomb steel about 6 inches thick, so that other background gamma radiation interference with our counts was about a factor of 50 lower than the average background exposure you receive from gamma radiation every day.

Many thousands of gamma ray counts were detected from my body every minute by the large scintillating crystal about two feet above my body when I reclined in a specially–selected low–activity, lawn–type chair within the steel room. I often used 40–minute counts of my body reclining in the lawn chair as a check on system reliability. (This was a good way to work when I was tired.)

In addition to the exposure from K–40 within our bodies, there are varying amounts of K–40 in rocks and soil in our environment; gamma rays from the ubiquitous K–40 in our environment contribute radiation exposure from sources external to our bodies. There are also many other naturally occurring radioactive nuclides (radioactive atoms) in our environment. Of about 340 natural types of atoms, about 70 are radioactive (Eisenbud and Gesell 1997, page 134). By just living, we receive certain "background" exposures from these natural radionuclides.

    "Gentlemen! You have Radiological Instruments for measuring Dose Rates, how much Dose Absorbed into the body using Dosimeters; the CDV–717, an older meter, still an excellent, high–range meter with a detachable ion chamber survey meter to measure, using the 25 foot cable that comes with it, such that you can be in your shelter, reading the dose rates outside the safety of your shelter!

    "When a gamma ray field covers the ground evenly, the particles generate a gamma ray field that is relatively constant; no matter which way you go. The best protection, when such a field is produced, and your best place to be, is in a fortified shelter below ground.

    "When this occurs, 'Most of the primary gamma rays coming directly toward the persons from the radioactive fallout are absorbed in the surrounding earth,' Allen Brodsky writes.

    "What happens if your meters get damaged by the EMPs? Then, here is a 'Rule of Thumb' for determining, radiation in your shelter, compared to being out in the open. This 'Rule of Thumb' reduces the exposure to gamma rays to about one–tenth compared to that of being out in the open radiation 'storm':

Gamma Rays Are High In Energy . . . So,

In the air, gamma rays are primary from fallout to people.

Much of the gamma rays in the surrounding air, from covering the ground uniformly, bounce off electrons in the air close to your shelter, causing a scattering of this energy, gamma radiation, down to persons in the shelter!

This scattering of gamma radiation can be intensified by any dense materials that are above ground near your shelter, and serve to reflect this radiation—known as secondary scattering of gamma rays, down into your shelter.

Therefore, you need 12–inches, minimum, of concrete below ground level to protect you from scattering radiation of gamma rays. Or...better to have two feet of concrete, or 3 feet of dirt can be used to have good protection from gamma radiation. 'This is equivalent,' according to Dr. Brodsky, 'to providing about 300 pounds of dense building material behind each square foot of wall or ceiling surface'. This would give you protection during the 'Decay' time."

 

    "Decay is the process whereby radioactive nuclides, radioactive atoms, break down by emitting energy, commonly in the form we have been lecturing on, alpha particles, beta particles, and gamma rays, finally ridding themselves of excess energy and forming a stable atom, which is no longer radioactive.

    "However, men, in fallout material, there are many different kinds of atoms that are radioactive, and as such there is not a single half–life one can depend on. When all of the fallout that is going to be deposited in an area, and as the fallout cloud moves on, then that fallout there...in that area that it was deposited in, the radiation decreases (decays) in a complicated manner because of the superimposition of the numerous atoms with different half–lives.

    "But, we will make this quite simplified. Just remember to do the division into the original R/hr!

    The 'Rule of Thumb' here is for practical purposes, such that the dose rate, R/hr, varies inversely as the time after the explosion. Let's say your meters were damaged in the blast wave; or, you lost them in all the confusion of thermonuclear blasts occuring over the nation in volleys or series... Then, if the Emergency Broadcast System has been reinstalled because of the Worsening Crisis; or, you still have your meters.

    "The first announcement over CONELRAD, which according to my thinking will be reopened in the Cheyenne Mountains, a few months or so after we get back, will tell you that a Radiation Cloud is now passing over your locale and measures, from readings taken by first responders; or, you take a reading, and get the intensity of 100 R/hr.

    "You get a pencil and paper, and write down:

1. 100 R/hr @ 1 A.M.
   Note: If five hours after the explosion all of the material that is going to fall on your locale has already fallen and a dose rate of 100 R/hr is measured at five hours, then this is your starting point. You log this and the time again on your data sheet, then ....

2. Five hours later from the announcement, which is considered the first five hours; then, it is 10 hours later, which is twice the time! Remember this. Then, we take 100 R/hr divided by 2 = 50 R/hr. That means that after ten hours (twice the time), the radiation intensity has fallen from 100 R/hr to 50 R/hr. Write this down on your data sheet with the time.

3. A third five hours later thrice the time, which is 15 hours of time that has gone by, still more decay is occurring. Then, 100 R/hr divided by 3 = 33.33 R/hr. Once again, log this information with the time on your log or data sheet.

4. You feel good about this, because you can see the radiation intensity is going down! So, another 5 hours has gone by quadruple the time; this means you must watch the time; then, log the following for the fourth entry: 100 R/hr divided by 4 = 25 R/hr.

5. Continue staying in your shelter and keep doing the above for every 5 hours until, you reach from Table 1.1: 0 to 50 R/hr; generally considered safe. However, I suggest you do not go out of the shelter unless for a few minutes for emergency repairs to reinforce your shelter, get water, etc. When you log 'Less than 0.5, 'No special precautions are necessary for operating activities. Keep fallout from contaminating people. Sleep in the shelter. Always avoid unnecessary exposure to radiation.' After two or three weeks, fallout should be two times less than natural background radiation.
   This demands you have prepared by knowing what the outside background radiation is around your shelter; and, what it is in your shelter!

 

    "CONELRAD stands for 'Plan for CONtrol of ELectromagnetic RADiations'," Dr. "B" told us.

On

Radiation & Ionization

 

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Two Very Sobering Thoughts:

 

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From

The Two-Fold Chastisement:

Visions of the Coming Earth Changes

 

Pages 83-84

Many holy people, seers, and other instruments of God have referred in their prophecies to the vast numbers of dead that will cover the earth when the Chastisement is over. And…there will be no one to bury the bodies. Rose Colomba spoke of "large multitudes" of corpses.

Saint Gaspar du Bufalo, founder of the Precious Blood Fathers, and who died in 1837, said "The earth will be covered with cadavers. All survivors will therefore think they are alone."

 

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Note, By Knowing The Units & The Interrelationships,

12 Gy = 1200 Rad Which Equals 1200 Roentgens

See Table 1-1 Above:

Solution:

 

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 In Addition To Understanding

Proper Shelter ,

Recall . . .  

The 7/10 Rule!

 

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The 7/10 Rule

• 100% Fallout
  90% Gone in 1st 7 hrs.
  10% Remaining after 1st 7 hrs.

• 90% Remaining fallout gone in 7-fold increase; or 49 hrs.

• Therefore: 10% remaining from #1
                   x 90% gone of the 10% remaining after 49 hrs., which is:

•    10%
  x 90%
    9.0% Gone of the 10% remaining after 49 hrs.

• Therefore we have lost, of the total original fallout of 100%
  90% (#2)
  - 9% (#4)
  99% Gone in 49 hrs.

• Therefore, of 100% Original fallout
                        - 99% Gone after 49 hrs.
                          1% Now remaining.

• And in a 7-fold more hours increase,
          7 x 49 = 343 hours = 14.29 days,
                        24 hrs/day
       Or approximately 2 weeks, fallout now remaining:
           90 % (for every 7-fold increase)
        x 1 %
           0.9% = 0.9% gone of remaining 1% (#6)

• Therefore 99 % is gone in 49 hrs (see #5)
                 + 0.9% gone in 14.29 days or about 2 weeks (see #7)
                    99.9% gone of original radiation after 2 weeks.

 

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  There Is More Than Hope!

You Can Survive!

But . . . When You Read This... 

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    A museum in Port Arthur, Texas, is hosting an exhibit called “Alert Today, Alive Tomorrow: Living With the Atomic Bomb, 1945 – 1965.” The exhibit features a walk-in bomb shelter among other attractions, plus materials, broadcasts and displays of written material distributed to Americans of that era to help them prepare in case of a nuclear war.

    In an article describing the exhibit, the reporter called the displays “propaganda,” which surprised Dr. “B.” He points out that the dictionary defines “propaganda” as material designed to persuade people to believe a certain doctrine, and he finds it interesting that modern reporters define the bomb-survival literature of 1945 – 1965 as “propaganda." The word, "Propaganda" has a negative association.

    “I can’t help but wonder, Kong,” he says. “Does this poor reporter believe that all this information on how to survive nuclear war is nothing but propaganda? I think he (or she) does. He is probably one of those poor saps who have believed the real propaganda put out by our current government, after ‘On The Beach,’ that tells us we’re all doomed in the event of a nuclear war. If the ‘nuclear winter’ doesn’t get us, then ‘mutually assured destruction’ will. These current reporters are so young and ignorant, they do not realize that the real propaganda is the nonsense they have bought into. And since they believe that no one can survive a nuclear war, then it stands to reason that a nuclear war will never occur, because nobody would survive it. They are in for a very rude awakening!

    “Remember, Kong. The government publications and broadcasts of 1945 – 1965 were based on actual atomic bomb tests in the 1950s and 1960s and the nuclear bombs of World War II dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and were written by scientists who had actual experience with atomic weapons of war. Who would you rather believe? Experienced scientists or real propaganda based on science-fiction novels?

    "It's all a big joke when you read 'stuff' by people not in the know. The danger is that they are going to get others, including themselves, killed because they know nothing about Initial & Lingering Radiation, nor about 'The Flash' & 'Thermal' Radiation as well as 'The Shock Front' and 'Mach Wave.'

     "And, by this type of writing and word usage, no one will be prepared, because, it's no longer something to study, but it's now all a big joke and fun thing!"

 

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Dr. "B" Advises The Following:

 

 

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And With The Earth Changes Now Occurring More In Earnest...

 

 

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Kong Sez:

    I finally got Dr. "B" to me why the Volcanism Study and all the study about the earth. He Says:

"Monsieur Kong, As we have discussed many times in the past, 'Fire will fall from the heavens and mingle with fire from the Earth'. The fire from the Earth are the volcanoes revevving up all over the world and now increasing ever the more so. Their gasses are very toxic; this is why in my private lectures, and on the treks we have made, I said to have a gas mask outfitted with oxygen; carrying oxygen bottles with you also, and have Carbon Monoxide detectors pinned to your person and wherever you run...and in your shelter. When the indicators do a color change, go for the mask!"

These fires also include the fires that will come from thermonuclear attacks on American soil.

 

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    Hence one must have Radiological Instruments and know how to use them efficiently and effectively.

    Therefore, it behooves one to also know the following chart and what to do from this series on Radiation.

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Your Action Level For Radiation!

 

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. . . . To Be Continued . . . .

 

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