[ RadSafe ] Re:Reasonable risk?

[Cindy Bloom]

At 11:45 AM 4/21/2006 -0400, Muckerheide, James wrote:
>Michael McNaughton Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 9:59 AM
>To: Maury Siskel; radsafe at radlab.nl
> >
> > At 07:55 PM 04/20/2006, you wrote:
> > >All of these value judgments are synonyms for zero judgment,
> > >responsibility, and authority.
> >
> > Would it help if we had an objective way to quantify it? For example, the
> > use of a money seems to me helpful. Some people quantify ALARA as: $10,000
> > per rem. I find this helpful when I am told to apply the ALARA principle to
> > a 3 mrem/year dose to a hypothetical individual at the site boundary. I
> > say: 3 mrem is equivalent to $30, so let's not talk too long.
> >
> > mike
> > Mike McNaughton
> > Los Alamos National Lab.
> > email: mcnaught at LANL.gov or mcnaughton at LANL.gov
> > phone: 505-667-6130; page: 505-664-7733
>
>Hmmm...  What does this say about EPA limits of 4 mrem/year for Yucca
>Mountain, and from radium in drinking water presently costing municipal water
>suppliers $100s millions to fix for concentrations below about 12 mrem/year?
>
>Regards, Jim

The figures of $1,000 or $10,000 are usually given per person-rem rather 
than per rem...

Cindy