[ RadSafe ] NYT Article on EPA Yucca Mountain Standards

[John Jacobus]

Mike,
Of course 36 people will get cancer.  About 50% of the
population will develop a cancer in their lifetime. 
In a population of 10,000, it can be estimated that
5,000 people will develop cancer.  Of course, whether
or not the cancer was due to the Yucca Mt. repository
is a harder question to answer.

I think it is outrageous to make statements like this
without putting it into context.  But, then again, I
am not trying to stop the opening of Yucca Mt.

--- "Stabin, Michael"
<michael.g.stabin at Vanderbilt.Edu> wrote:

> >Under the standard for the first 10,000 years, the
> most-exposed person
> would receive an annual dose of no more than 15
> millirem, ... For the
> balance of a million years it would be 350 millirem
> >Lois Gibbs, founder of the Center for Health,
> Environment and Justice,
> a nonprofit group, called the extended standard as
> "a death sentence,"
> saying the standard that would apply after the first
> 10,000 years was so
> high that one in 36 people exposed at that level
> every year for a
> lifetime would contract cancer as a result.
> 
> OK, John, quit pulling my leg. These must be quotes
> from an obscure
> Harold Pinter play, right?
> 
> 
> Mike
> 
> Michael G. Stabin, PhD, CHP
> Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiological
> Sciences 
> Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences 
> Vanderbilt University 
> 1161 21st Avenue South
> Nashville, TN 37232-2675 
> Phone (615) 343-0068
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> 


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On Oct. 5, 1947, in the first televised White House address, President Truman asked Americans to refrain from eating meat on Tuesdays and poultry on Thursdays to help stockpile grain for starving people in Europe. 

-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com


	
		
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