Kathlyn
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Kate Moore:
I'm a post grad medical physicist & my husband is retired regional head of nuclear medicine, radiation protection advisor & member of the UK NAIR team. Your physics is totally wrong - wrong at the most basic level. Gamma rays are the LEAST damaging as they deposit less energy on transit through tissue. Beta PARTICLES deposit more energy and alpha PARTICLES deposit the most energy and are the most dangerous. Why?
Kate Moore
Hi. Thanks for your comment. I'm the first to admit I'm no scientist, but I am confused by your comment as the book supports what you say e.g. p. 135 the alpha rays were 'physiologically and biologically intensely more irritating than beta or gamma rays'. I agree with you: they're the most dangerous; or, as I simplistically put it, 'the worst kind of radiation'. That's why it was so dangerous for the women to have those alpha rays inside them - because they were so powerful and, once internalised, there was nothing to stop them destroying the women's bodies. All best wishes, Kate
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Roxie
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Kate Moore:
I often wonder when, and if, there is a moment that a story starts telling itself; as though you are but a channel. The lives of these girls were so horribly shortened by the actions of the company for which they diligently worked. The owners were so cavalier; so devious to establish their own health workers. Does it feel as though the girls spoke through you? Wonderful book, btw
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