[cdn-nucl-l] Re: Japan: "we don't see the need to regulate radon"

["Patricia Lewis" <lewis@radonmine.com>]

I just received a message from Montana Dept of Commerce.  They had an 
inquiry from Japan asking if the radonmine in Montana could "Bottle" radon 
for export to them....  I refered them to their own resources...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Cuttler" <jerrycuttler@rogers.com>
To: "cdn-nucl-l" <cdn-nucl-l@mailman1.cis.McMaster.CA>; "RAD-SCI-L" 
<rad-sci-l@WPI.EDU>
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 1:42 PM
Subject: Japan: "we don't see the need to regulate radon"


| The author's claim that radon killed Madame Curie is inaccurate.
| She inhaled plenty of radon, but did not die of lung cancer.  She carried
| out all kinds of research with X-rays and radioactivity (radium)
| http://www.aip.org/history/curie/ .  She even trucked X-ray equipment to 
the
| WWI battlefields and used it on wounded soldiers.  She died in 1934 at 66
| years of age -- quite a long life in those days.  |