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   February 18, 2004.       9^th year.     Page 2.

LOW  LEVEL  RADIATIONS  ? 

According to Maurice-Eugene André, a researcher specialized in nuclear protection, there does not exist any radiation of low level in the event of radioactive contamination inside the human body.

THE REASON FOR THE NON EXISTENCE OF LOW LEVEL RADIATION IN THE HUMAN BODY IN THE EVENT OF RADIOACTIVE  CONTAMINATION  INSIDE THE BODY (internal radioactive contamination), IS EXPOSED BELOW.

Internal sources of radiations (UA/DU, etc.) are always dangerous

Wherever radioactive dusts are present there is a possibility that radioactive material will enter the body through the lungs (during breathing), the digestive tract, or through wounds or abrasions.

It should particularly be noted that even a very low quantity of radioactive material present in the body, can produce considerable biological injury. Indeed then, very short distances (of order of the micrometer and below) between the cells and the radioactive atoms, are possible, and this is dangerous because the alive cells in which the biological damage can occur, are then in the immediate vicinity of the radiation source and not protected by biological (or different) material, acting as half-thickness of protection, like for example, the thickness cornea of the skin, in the event of external ALPHA irradiation. Dangerous because the body cells in which injury may occur are nearer the source of radiation and not shielded from it by intervening material : this is of very particular importance with alpha particles if fission products (beta - particle emitters) or radioactive dusts with plutonium or uranium (alpha – particle emitters) are internal. In that case the particles can dissipate their entire energy within a small possibly sensitive volume of body tissue, thus causing considerable damage.

This biological damage is explained by a correct and complete calculation relating the laws of protection against radiations ; in particular the ‘Law of the reverse of the square of the distance’ (or : Inverse square law) which determines the intensity of the received irradiation. The more the radiant source (radioactive atoms) approaches the alive cells, the more the distance between the radiant source and the irradiated cells, decreases, and the more the irradiation of the cells increases, to arrive as far as a limit called "effect of proximity". It is this limit which the researcher Maurice-Eugene André, discovered, and he calculated this value for clusters of uranium (DU) atoms in the human lungs. The pulmonary clusters of uranium (DU) atoms would give up 100 to more 1000 times the amount of the irradiation of natural origin. Plutonium would give much more still !                                                                                                                                                       Irma CLOES.