[ RadSafe ] Nuclear accident exercise reveals 'fatal flaws'

[Fred Dawson]

You should look at the Senator exercise report at the following link

http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/AboutDefence/CorporatePublications/Reports/OtherPublications/DSC/ExerciseSenatorAllAgencyReport.htm

http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/9D67C3E5-AF31-4115-ACF3-BAF2DF802E56/0/Ex_Senator_All_Agency_Report.pdf


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric D" <edaxon at satx.rr.com>
To: "'Jose Julio Rozental'" <joseroze at netvision.net.il>; "'Radsafe'" 
<radsafe at radlab.nl>
Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2006 7:44 PM
Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] Nuclear accident exercise reveals 'fatal flaws'


>I read the article and could not really assess how bad the exercise was or
> was not but I did find a statement that really says it all about the
> standard used to assess risk of the incident and how they came up with the
> adjective - deadly.
>
> <"Many thousands of people would be put at risk," said Dr Frank Barnaby, a
> nuclear physicist who used to work at the Atomic Weapons Establishment at
> Aldermaston in Berkshire. "If they get a speck of plutonium in their 
> lungs,
> the probability is fatal lung cancer.">
>
> The statement could be parsed to be accurate but the message to the
> non-health physicist is clear.  These kinds of statements actually 
> increase
> the risk and the harm caused by a real incident.  Many on this list have 
> had
> "specks" of plutonium.
>
> Eric Daxon
>
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