Calzone
Gear Whore #1
Austin,
I was a radiation worker at Grumman, at Brookhaven National Labs, and at Loss Alamos also.
My exposure to radiation actually was very little and amounted to perhaps high background levels like living in Madhattan around granite verses living in Brooklyn which is very low background because of sand. Another comparison whould be living at a high altitude like I did in the Santa Fe National Forest.
Pretty much I might have been exposed as perhaps an airline pilot. No big deal, or lived in Denver Colorado for decades. Did you know in New Hampshire, the Granite State, there is a high incidence of lung cancer from the radon levels because of the granite.
I post openly about my prostate because this is a very treatable disease that eventually will effect about 50% of all men. This is also n age related disease so the older you are the higher the odds. Again most Prostate Cancers are slow growing, so it is very important to get your PSA tested every year.
The implantation of radioactive seeds like how your brother got treated is now obsolete. They use low dose and high dose radiation and have a lot more control. This thing called the Cyber Knife is actually high dose radiation to kill off the Cancer without creating a lot of collateral damage.
The removal of the prostrate leads to impotence and loss of bladder control for about a year. Kinda drastic.
The danger though if left untreated is that it can jump into bone Cancer and then pretty much you will be a goner.
My writing about this is a kinda Public Service. Prostate Cancer is not a death sentence and for many-many old men it is part of their life.
A warning here though is that “Maggie’s” mom should have gotten a colonoscopy that likely would of saved her life. At a certain age doctors, some doctors cease to continue to do the preventative medicine. Pretty much if you are old these diagnostic procedures should be continued.
Also many households fell behind on keeping up with the maintenance and their healthcare. It took a lot of effort and time to catch up. I figure Covid-19 will be responsible for a rather serious decline in life expectancy because other diseases will get out of hand. Pretty much there was a three year interval where our healthcare system was also kinda locked down.
I seriously doubt that my exposure to the tiny amounts of radiation had any health consequences. The radiation I created with my Cyclotron I released by opening valves remotely via a GUI on a computer in a control room and using inert gas to push the radioactivity into a hot cell where nuclear chemists made the radiophamicueticals for PET Imaging.
These chemists pretty much received large doses of radiation because they actually handled the radiation. Three feet thick walls of boriated concrete absorbed the neutrons I created with my proton beam, and also a 30,000 pound door filled with lead bricks. Pretty much I worked in a nuclear bunker of sorts.
At Brookhaven labs the acceleration of charged particles was so vast that the Crompton Effect would generate enough X-rays to drop and kill a person in the 2.6 mile circular tunnel. Pretty much instant death.
My exposure to radiation is minimal overall.
Cal
I was a radiation worker at Grumman, at Brookhaven National Labs, and at Loss Alamos also.
My exposure to radiation actually was very little and amounted to perhaps high background levels like living in Madhattan around granite verses living in Brooklyn which is very low background because of sand. Another comparison whould be living at a high altitude like I did in the Santa Fe National Forest.
Pretty much I might have been exposed as perhaps an airline pilot. No big deal, or lived in Denver Colorado for decades. Did you know in New Hampshire, the Granite State, there is a high incidence of lung cancer from the radon levels because of the granite.
I post openly about my prostate because this is a very treatable disease that eventually will effect about 50% of all men. This is also n age related disease so the older you are the higher the odds. Again most Prostate Cancers are slow growing, so it is very important to get your PSA tested every year.
The implantation of radioactive seeds like how your brother got treated is now obsolete. They use low dose and high dose radiation and have a lot more control. This thing called the Cyber Knife is actually high dose radiation to kill off the Cancer without creating a lot of collateral damage.
The removal of the prostrate leads to impotence and loss of bladder control for about a year. Kinda drastic.
The danger though if left untreated is that it can jump into bone Cancer and then pretty much you will be a goner.
My writing about this is a kinda Public Service. Prostate Cancer is not a death sentence and for many-many old men it is part of their life.
A warning here though is that “Maggie’s” mom should have gotten a colonoscopy that likely would of saved her life. At a certain age doctors, some doctors cease to continue to do the preventative medicine. Pretty much if you are old these diagnostic procedures should be continued.
Also many households fell behind on keeping up with the maintenance and their healthcare. It took a lot of effort and time to catch up. I figure Covid-19 will be responsible for a rather serious decline in life expectancy because other diseases will get out of hand. Pretty much there was a three year interval where our healthcare system was also kinda locked down.
I seriously doubt that my exposure to the tiny amounts of radiation had any health consequences. The radiation I created with my Cyclotron I released by opening valves remotely via a GUI on a computer in a control room and using inert gas to push the radioactivity into a hot cell where nuclear chemists made the radiophamicueticals for PET Imaging.
These chemists pretty much received large doses of radiation because they actually handled the radiation. Three feet thick walls of boriated concrete absorbed the neutrons I created with my proton beam, and also a 30,000 pound door filled with lead bricks. Pretty much I worked in a nuclear bunker of sorts.
At Brookhaven labs the acceleration of charged particles was so vast that the Crompton Effect would generate enough X-rays to drop and kill a person in the 2.6 mile circular tunnel. Pretty much instant death.
My exposure to radiation is minimal overall.
Cal
