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"The power of an aroused public is
unbeatable."
Dr. Helen Caldicott
Herman Joseph Muller wins the Nobel Prize in
Medicine.
The effects of radiation are thought of in terms of
effects on living cells.
A
typical CT scan equals 400 chest X-rays.
Equal doses of different
types or energies of radiation cause different amounts of biological damage to
living cells.
The units used to measure ionizing radiation are rather
complex.
The ionizing effects of radiation are measured by units of
exposure:
The coulomb per kilogram (C/kg) is the SI unit of ionizing
radiation exposure, and measures the amount of radiation required to create 1
coulomb of charge of each polarity in 1 kilogram of matter.
The roentgen
(R) is an older traditional unit that is almost out of use, which represented
the amount of radiation required to liberate 1 esu of charge of each polarity
in 1 cubic centimeter of dry air.
1 Roentgen = 2.58×10-4
C/kg.
However, the amount of damage done to matter (especially living
tissue) by ionizing radiation is more closely related to the amount of energy
deposited rather than the charge.
This is called the absorbed
dose.
The gray (Gy), with units J/kg, is the SI unit of absorbed dose,
which represents the amount of radiation required to deposit 1 joule of energy
in 1 kilogram of any kind of matter.
The rad (Roentgen absorbed dose),
is the corresponding traditional unit which is 0.01 J deposited per kg. 100 rad
= 1 Gy.
1 Gy of alpha radiation causes about 20 times as much damage as
1 Gy of x-rays.
The equivalent dose is defined to give an approximate
measure of the biological effect of radiation.
It is calculated by
multiplying the absorbed dose by a weighting factor WR which is different for
each type of radiation (see above table).
The sievert (Sv) is the SI
unit of equivalent dose.
Although it has the same units as grays, J/kg,
it measures something different.
It is the dose of any type of
radiation in Gy that has the same biological effect on a human as 1 Gy of
x-rays or gamma radiation.
The rem (Roentgen equivalent man) is the
traditional unit of equivalent dose.
1 sievert = 100 rem.
Because the rem is a relatively large unit, typical equivalent dose is
measured in millirem (mrem), 10-3 rem, or in microsievert (µSv), 10-6 Sv.
1 mrem = 10 µSv.
For low levels of radiation, the biological
effects are so small they may not be detected in epidemiological studies.
The body repairs many types of radiation and chemical damage.
Biological effects of radiation on living cells may result in a variety
of outcomes, including:
Cells experience DNA damage and are able to
detect and repair the damage.
Cells experience DNA damage and are
unable to repair the damage.
These cells may go through the process of
programmed cell death, or
apoptosis,
thus eliminating the potential genetic damage from the larger tissue.
Cells experience a nonlethal
DNA mutation that is passed on to subsequent cell divisions.
This mutation may contribute to the formation
of a cancer.
Other observations at the tissue level are more
complicated.
These include:
In some cases, a small radiation
dose reduces the impact of a subsequent, larger radiation dose.
This has
been termed an 'adaptive
response' and is related to hypothetical mechanisms of
hormesis.
Radiation hormesis is the unproven theory that a low level of
ionizing radiation (i.e. near the level of Earth's natural background
radiation) helps "immunize" cells against DNA damage from other causes (such as
free radicals or larger doses of ionizing radiation), and decreases the risk of
cancer.
The theory proposes that such low levels activate the body's
DNA repair mechanisms, causing higher levels of cellular DNA repair proteins to
be present in the body, improving the body's ability to repair DNA
damage.
This allopathic theory is very similar to the theory of
vaccination immunization.
This assertion is very difficult to prove
(using, for example, statistical cancer studies) because the effects of very
low ionizing radiation levels are too small to be statistically measured amid
the "noise" of normal cancer rates.
The idea of
radiation hormesis is considered unproven by regulatory bodies, which generally
use the standard "linear, no threshold" (LNT) model - the risk of cancer is directly proportional to the dose
level of ionizing radiation.
The LNT model is safer for regulatory
purposes because it assumes worst-case damage due to ionizing radiation;
therefore, if regulations are based on it, workers might be over-protected, but
they will never be under-protected.
In biology, radiation is mainly used
for sterilization, and
enhancing mutations.
The
'background' dose of natural radiation is ~ 3 mSv (300 mrem) per
year.
The lethal dose of radiation for a human is around 4 - 5 Sv (400 -
500 rem).
1898 Marie and Pierre Curie distill radium from
pitchblende.
1907 James Douglas, a scientist and
mining engineer, daughter Naomi is diagnosed with
breast cancer.
Doctors in New York operate on her
five separate times but each time the cancer returns.
As a last-ditch
attempt at a cure, Douglas takes his daughter to Europe to be treated with
radium.
1910 Douglas devotes his life to the
promotion of radium therapy for cancer treatment.
1913 With a US government
grant, Douglas forms the National Radium Institute, to mine radium from
uranium ores recently discovered in Colorado.
1917 Douglas gives his entire share of the National Radium
Institute to Memorial Hospital along with the stipulation that the
hospital should return to its original mandate of serving as a cancer hospital.
The second is that radiation would be
studied and used to treat cancer.
1918 Grace
Fryer starts work as a dial painter at the United States Radium Corporation
(USRC) in Orange, New Jersey.
Dial painting was "the elite job for the poor working girls".
It pays more than three times the average factory job, and those lucky
enough to land a position ranked in the top 5% of female workers nationally,
giving the women financial freedom in
a time of burgeoning female
empowerment.
Radium's luminosity is part of its allure, and
the dial painters soon became known as the "ghost girls" - because by the time
they finished their shifts, they themselves would glow in the dark.
Radium is believed to be beneficial to health.
People drank
radium water as a tonic,
and one could buy cosmetics, butter, milk, and toothpaste laced with
radium.
Newspapers
reported its use would "add years to our lives!"
1946
Herman Joseph Muller, an American scientist, concludes from his investigations
that low dose exposure, and therefore even natural background radiation, is
mutagenic and there is no harmless dose range for heritable effects or for
cancer induction.
1947 Colonel EE Kirkpatrick of the US Atomic Energy
Commission issues a secret document (Document 07075001, January 8, 1947)
stating the agency will begin administering intravenous doses of radioactive
substances to humans.
Researchers inject 4.7 micrograms of
plutonium into American soldiers
at the Oak Ridge facility.
Plutonium Trojan Horse in the Body
Researchers give
a total of 200 doses of iodine-131, a
radioactive tracer that concentrates almost immediately in the thyroid
gland, to 85 healthy Eskimos and 17 Athapascan Indians living in
Alaska.
Laboratory workers at the University of Minnesota and
University of Chicago inject human guinea pigs with phosphorus-32.
University of
Rochester radiologist Colonel Stafford Warren injects
plutonium into human at the
teaching hospital,
Strong Memorial.
University of Rochester researchers
inject four male and two female human guinea pigs with uranium-234 and
uranium-235 in dosages ranging from 6.4 to 70.7 micrograms per one kilogram of
body weight in order to study how much uranium they could tolerate before their
kidneys fail.
Six male employees of a Chicago metallurgical laboratory are given
water contaminated with plutonium-239 to drink so that researchers can learn
how plutonium is absorbed
into the digestive tract.
Human guinea pigs are given one to four
injections of arsenic-76 at the University of Chicago Department of
Medicine.
The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) sponsors iodine
studies at the University of Iowa.
In the first study,
researchers give pregnant women 100 to 200 microcuries of iodine-131 and then
study the women's aborted embryos in order to learn at what stage and to what
extent radioactive iodine crosses the placental barrier.
In the second
study, researchers give 12 male and 13 female newborns under 36 hours old and
weighing between 5.5 and 8.5 lb iodine-131 either orally or via intramuscular
injection, later measuring the concentration of iodine in the newborns'
thyroid glands.
Researchers feed 28 healthy infants at the University of Nebraska
College of Medicine iodine-131 through a gastric tube and then test
concentration of iodine in the infants'
thyroid
glands.
At the University of Tennessee, researchers inject
healthy two-to three-day-old newborns with approximately 60 rads of iodine-131.
Researchers at Harper Hospital in Detroit give oral doses of
iodine-131 to 65 premature and full-term infants weighing between 2.1 and 5.5
lb.
Eleven patients at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston
are injected with uranium.
Researchers inject a genetic compound called
radioactive thymidine into the testicles of more than 100 Oregon State
Penitentiary inmates to learn whether sperm production is affected by
exposure to steroid hormones.
1958 The Atomic
Energy Commission (AEC) drops
radioactive materials
over Point Hope, Alaska, home to the Inupiats, in a field test known under the
codename "Project Chariot."
1986 Six
documented accidents occurred when the high-current electron beam generated in
X-ray mode was delivered directly to patients.
Two software faults were
to blame.
One, when the operator incorrectly selected X-ray mode before
quickly changing to electron mode, which allowed the electron beam to be set
for X-ray mode without the X-ray target being in place.
A second fault
allowed the electron beam to activate during field-light mode, during which no
beam scanner was active or target was in place.
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