[ RadSafe ] Government has 'dirty bomb' cleanup guide

[Rogers Brent]

The spokesperson for the Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS)
reckons that persons returning to a site that has been cleaned up to 10,000
mRem/year "could cause one in four people to get cancer"...

Considering that at present about one in three people will get cancer, it
sounds pretty advantageous to the returnees.  Has anyone heard before that
NIRS is a proponent of hormesis?  The article just refers to them as a
'nuclear watchdog'.

Brent Rogers
Manager Radiation Operations Unit
NSW Environment Protection Authority
Department of Environment and Conservation
*+61 2 9995 5986
*+61 2 9995 6603
* PO Box A290 Sydney South 1232



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