FW: [ RadSafe ] Re: Fw: Someone just responded to your comment

[Mercado, Don]

John Jacobus wrote: 

>Don,
>I do not have a lot of time to argue with you on this
>list server.

You seem to spend a lot of time here for someone who doesn't have a lot
of time.

>My undergraduate training was in
>engineering.  ALARA is good engineering practices.
>That is what I focus on, not LNT.

Ah. No economics training. I get it now. My sister has engineering
degrees from U of M and she's the same way.
 
>I could save lots
>of doses by doing things differently, but I am not
>rich like you.  I go for the cheap fixes.

So you're not that concerned with giving employees the extra dose. You
don't consider LNT real. That's good. We're on the same side. I'm not
sure where you get the idea that the nuke plants or I are rich, or why
you even throw that red herring in there, but your info is faulty. Its
primarily that money is short supply that that I *always* consider it in
the LNT/cost/benefit analysis. How many times did I mention costs in my
examples? Your suggestions of adding costly systems and electronics
(engineering solutions) leads me to think *YOU* are the rich one. "Money
is no object" seems to be your theme song.

>I still say the Primalert would be a money saving
>idea.

Are you on their payroll? Simply suggesting that I install one
reinforces my thoughts that YOU are rich, and installing unnecessary
equipment is your paradigm and the solution instead of doing real,
hands-on, money saving work.

>How much does it cost you in time to do the
>same would a remote radiations sensor save?

I can do the surveys in less than 60 seconds per unit per year. I'm sure
the total cost of a Primalert system to do the same thing would never be
recovered.

>Why are
>you doing the work?  You like hanging around the
>equipment?

Its what I get paid to do. Real work. What do you do? Comfy in that
ivory tower?

>I have not seen in any of your activities where you
>consider the LNT.

Blinders are wonderful things, aren't they? Another engineering
solution.