How Nuclear Radiation Harms Our Bodies!

Alpha Radiation is stopped by the outer skin layer (Epidermis) and isn't harmful unless fallout particles are inhaled or swallowed. In this case, the alpha radiation may cause serious damage to the tissues inside the lungs or one swallows enough particles to become a casualty from alpha radiation during the emergency. It was once thought that they were too large to cause much damage; but, since Chernobyl in 1986, it is now recognized that severe problems can exist, as there is no Epidermis that can block them inside the lungs as there is on the outside of the body!

Beta Radiation is much more penetrating than alpha radiation and may cause skin burns if a lot of fallout particles less than a few days old stay on the skin for a few hours! In Chernobyl at the Power Plant Meltdown, one of the first responders, a fireman who was there on the roof for only a few minutes, died from Beta Burns to the lungs later...The Lungs Rotted!

Gamma Radiation is considered the most dangerous of the three kinds of fallout radiation, as it can penetrate the entire body and cause cell damage to all parts, to the organs, blood, and bones. It is often said, one can't smell radiation, taste it, feel it, etc., because the nerve cells are not directly stimulated by nuclear radiation as they are by pressure and temperature. But, again, Chernobyl had not happened when this was recorded. At Chernobyl, many felt great heat in the body; a great taste of metal in the mouth; and huge headaches. We just have not had, at this time before Chernobyl, enough radiation hit a human being, as did at Chernobyl!

How Do We Measure Quantities of Radiation?

As give in many of The Kong Reports, using a Dosimeter measuring in dose exposure (Roentgen, "R"), and Survey Meters measuring in Roentgens per hour (R/hr). These are rate meters.

Symptoms of Radiation Injury:

Although nuclear radiation from natural background damages some cells in our bodies and destroys others, we do not notice this damage. Billions of cells in our bodies die natural deaths every hour and are replaced by normal growth and repair processes. We feel no injury or sickness from exposure to nuclear radiation at the levels which exist in our natural surroundings.

But, if our bodies are exposed to gamma radiation from fallout which may be many thousands of times higher than the levels of natural background nuclear radiation, there will be so many cells damaged or destroyed that some of us may become sick, and some may even die.

Some or all of the symptoms of injury may appear within the first three days after exposure.

[Now Here is where Dr. "B" went to town with what follows, explaining in detail where a Radeff Officer must know something or he/she is going to have literal hell with some of the Shelterees in the Home Fallout Shelter!]

These symptom include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fever, irritability, a lack of energy and a feeling of being tired to extreme tiredness!

If you notice when Fallout Is coming down, someone becomes rather irritable; that may project in argumentiveness or even belligerency, and your shelter is safe according to various charts you are in possession of, then that person has frightened him/herself into a state of anxiety that is projecting into more and deeper anxiety. Feel the brow and sides of the neck of the person; it hot, he has fever too and this can generate more to his irritability! Always have something on hand to control fever.

However, as we have given recently in The Kong Report, 'finding and Covering Up "Leaks in Gamma Shielding," this person or persons may have received a high dose of gamma radiation and is beginning to exhibit symptoms of ARS, Acute Radiation Syndrome. Then, get that person to bed with Dr. "B"s measures for controlling radiation damage to the body with certain nutrients.

Actually, all should be on those nutrients when expecting a nuclear attack or now!

The symptoms may disappear and then come back after a week to three weeks later, sometimes with diarrhea, sore throat, loss of hair, and a tendency to bleed easily. He will demonstrate a lessening ability to fight against infections; that is why we have recommended you store Tetracycline, a broad–base antibiotic with little complications of today's antibiotics!

Chances of illness from infections are greater among those who are exposed to more than about 200 R (Use a dosimeter before, during, and after to ascertain this) because the higher radiation exposure damages the immune system in our bodies that helps fight diseases.

Dr. "B" feels we will literally see a 'Sea of Corpses' due to the PUFAs everyone is now eating and has been told to eat, whereas, Saturated Fat does not cause free radicals, as do the Omega Oils and other similar unsaturated fats!

Unless one receives a dose of 7-15 thousand Roentgens, as was done at Chernobyl, they are not radioactive; but, only radiocontaminated. Others at Chernobyl received and died shortly, a dose of 30,000 R!

Those receiving 7-15 thousand R who were finally taken to the Moscow hospital and those treating the irradiated of such roentgen levels, within a week later, became radioactive and died too!

Beta Burns:

Beta burns will result if a lot (enough to make you feel dirty, gritty, and grimy,) of fallout particles less than a few days old, stay on the skin for several hours!

Early symptoms of such skin contamination include itching and burning sensations. These may soon disappear. Darkened or raised skin areas or sores may appear within one or two weeks.

After two weeks or more, there may be a temporary loss of hair (it will return in about six months). The greater the exposure, the earlier the symptoms will appear, Beta burns will not be a problem if fallout particles are brushed or washed off promptly.

Wearing clothing such as gloves, hats, scarves, face-masks, and long-sleeved garments will help to prevent fallout particles from collecting on the skin; Also, have a White Umbrella!

Include also, a respirator, wide-brim hats with foil or plastic covering, long raincoat, and boots that come up under the raincoat for several inches!

 

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Within a few days after fallout has arrived, its radioactivity will have decayed so much that beta radiation will not be a hazard under most circumstances, if you have prepared with the immediate above and have a whiskbroom and dustpan on your person too for dusting off when in a safe reception room of your Home Fallout Shelter.

However, it may be a problem in the first few weeks if you have to crawl or lie on the ground as may be necessary in rescue operations, and the skin is covered with dust which is not removed for many hours! Hence, you may have to crawl; Stand and Dust-Off; then, back to crawling, and dragging an injured person, etc., repeating the 'Stand & Dust-Off' Procedure every few minutes or so.

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Review This In Your Mind & Be Prepared:

Adapted From Radiation Safety In Shelters

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Water in covered containers and from underground sources will be safe. Water into which fallout particles have fallen may become unsafe to drink for a while, because radioactive iodine dissolves in water; that is, it goes into ionization or disassociates in solution--water, in this case.

Water that is collected from rooftops or other flat areas into cisterns, tanks, or other reservoirs, may have much higher concentrations of radioactivity than other sources of water if there is a rainfall shortly after fallout has arrived.

Rivers and streams that are fed mostly by water from the surface rather than from underground springs may also become contaminated by radioactive iodine if there is a rainfall in the first few days after fallout arrives.

Water in large, deep lakes, reservoirs, and rivers will probably be safe to drink (although it could still be unsafe due to other pollutants) within hours or days after fallout has arrived, because of dilution of the radioiodine into large volumes of water.

The radioactive problem will almost completely disappear in any water in a few weeks due to natural radioactive decay. The quantity of the radioactive iodine of the greatest concern will become half as much every eight days (the half-life is eight days)—provided no more nuclear bombs are bursting and fallout is rolling in.

[Dr. "B" was very strong on the above and below point for our safety and having potable (drinkable clean water)]

Radioisotopes that have dissolved in water cannot be removed by boiling or settling. The water can be purified by special filtering or chemical processes, one method being the filtration of water through several inches of soil or clay (not Sand!). He recommends one go now to amazon.com and get Bentonite (which is a clay mineral) Clay! Water filtered through soil MUST be disinfected either by boiling or by adding chemicals such as chlorine bleach with no scent, or household iodine. Check on your bleach container for the percentage it has of hypocholite and follow reccomendations below:

 

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 The Left And Right Of Things! 

    Everyone is into Sieverts now, and there is no chart to relate to damage from Sieverts; hence, you must convert Sieverts into the Rotengen System, which has a chart and go from there...

     For those of you who just don’t get it, the ratio and proportion type of mathematics, i.e., going from Roentgens to Grays, or Sieverts, and back from Sieverts or Grays to Roentgens, Rads and Rems, here is a very easy way Dr. “B” showed me – Marvellous! – how to do this without using ratio and proportion.

     Now here’s the big problem with anything. If you are out in a radiation storm as a RaDef officer, or your own home fallout shelter, or police officer, fireman, or normal American citizen that volunteered to be a first responder, the immense stress of being in a radiation storm and perhaps other nukes going off 100 miles away, and you see the flash, or hear it, or feel the earth vibrate, you’ve got to have a simple system to change from the Roentgen system to the Sievert system, or, more likely, from the Sievert system to the Roentgen system, to ascertain the tremendous relationship between disease from fallout and serious injury or death.

    This false pride of 'The Macho Spirit' who is so SMART and can do it in his head is going to misread and misinterpret the results his meter returns. Avoid this Bastard~! Dr. "B" has been told by many he has taught this to, "Oh, I can do that in my head!" Dr. "B" asked this 'dead' soul, "Have you ever been in a war zone where someone(s) are going to kill you from one moment to the next?"

    I was there, folks! The poor soul hem-hawed about. When his friends saw that, they deserted him. Later, they told Dr. "B", "Not only will his false pride get him killed, but anyone with him!"

    Dr. Brocato invented the system he calls: The Left and Right of Things, for when one is under great stress, as in a radiation fallout storm. If you are given Roentgens, and you want to know how many Sieverts that is, you go to the left, two spots from the decimal point.

    Let’s say you are given 100 Roentgens. How many Sieverts is that?

    The decimal place in 100 is at the end of the last zero, but it doesn’t show because you are already there and don’t have any whole numbers going beyond it, or fractions. So, we go from the decimal two places to the left, two digits to the left. That is, the first zero and the second zero. And you end up placing a decimal at that spot two places from the right to the left, and that gives you 1 Sievert. So if you need to know this to report, you can easily find it out using a meter that measures only in Roentgens.

    The Roentgen chart we keep sending up tells you in no uncertain terms that what danger you may be in when you read the chart. There is no such chart for Sieverts. Why the Sievert system was invented is a lot of people’s question. Many newer digital meters measure only in Sieverts.

    Remember, the information on this chart, done in Roentgens, was obtained from many sources, including the results of the atomic explosions at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, and many Nazi-like experiments performed on prisoners, minorities and poor Americans (without their permission and unbeknownst to them!) by hospitals and universities and funded by the United States government. Read about it in The Plutonium Files.

We have found a way of relating the two systems, which is:

1 Roentgen = 1 rad = 1 rem = 0.01Gy (Gray) = 0.01 Sv (Sievert).

    Now, let’s say you have measured 50 Sieverts On the Sievert system, going to the Roentgen system, you go from right to left of the decimal. Herein is the problem. Let’s say you have 50 Sieverts. Where is the decimal? Go from the decimal to the right, two places, placing zeros, as in: 50.00

    This gives you, when you move the decimal two places to the right: 5,000 Roentgens!

     And herein is going to be a problem for those who know the old system: “Oh, 50! That’s not too much! That’s safe!”

    And indeed it wouldn’t be dangerous, if that 50 was Roentgens! But it isn’t. It is 50 Sieverts.

    When you do the conversion, 50 Sieverts is 5,000 Roentgens! And that is way beyond a killing dose!

    So remember: The Left and Right of Things System. If you are given Sieverts, you go from the left to the right of the decimal point two places, to find how many Roentgens that is. This way, you have a chart that will tell you, in Roentgens, what kind of danger you are in. There appears to be no such chart for Sieverts.

A quick review:

1. Given Roentgens, to get Sieverts, go to the left two places from the decimal.

2. Given Sieverts, to get Roentgens, go to the right two places from the decimal.

    But you firefighters, you police officers, you first responders! This is what you are going to have to deal with:

"A number of agencies and recommending bodies have suggested emergency dose guidance levels, or reference levels, for radiation workers. The EPA has recommended emergency dose guidance levels of 100 mSv for protecting valuable property and 250 mSv for life saving and protection of large populations (EPA 1991). EPA has further recognized that volunteers may exceed the 250-mSv guidance level, based on full awareness of the risks, to conduct life-saving procedures. The NCRP addresses “emergency occupational

“Exposures during emergency actions that do not involve life-saving should, to the extent possible, be controlled to the occupational dose limits. Where this cannot be accomplished, it is recommended that a limit of 0.5 Sv effective dose and an equivalent dose of 5 Sv to the skin be applied, which is consistent with ICRP recommendations.”—Public Protection from Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Terrorism; Brodsky, Johnson, Jr, Goans, Editors

    Does this make any sense to you? There appears to be no concensus among the “experts.” It sounds more like to me, "Publish or Perish" mantra!

    They talk about the Emergency dose: the Effective Dose: and the Equivalent Dose. But what is the Killing Dose?? Or the Sickening Dose?

    Now, using the principles given above, work the following problems:

1. 50 Sv = ? In Roentgens
2. 50 mSv = ? In R
3. 50 microSv = ? In R
4. 200 R = ? Sv
5. 300 Rem = ? Sv
6. 5000 R = ? Sv
7. 0.1 mSv/hr = ? R/hr
8. 0.1 Sv = ? Rem

And Here are the answers:

1. 5,000 R
2. 5 R
3. 0.005 R or, 5,000 micro R
4. 2 Sv
5. 3 Sv
6. 50 Sv
7. 10 mR/hr or, 0.01 R/hr
8. 10 Rem

    And now, the Chart: