[ RadSafe ] Fwd: Retain Benefit of <100 mSv/yr!

[howard long]

howard long <hflong at pacbell.net> wrote:  Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:45:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: howard long <hflong at pacbell.net>
Subject: Retain Benefit of <100 mSv/yr!
To: STRATPLAN at NRC.GOV
CC: Jane Orient <jorient at mindspring.com>, maccabee at comcast.net

  USNRC new Strategic Plan to protect the public must retain the BENEFIT of up to 100 mSv/yr (see Pollycove, Luckey, Cuttler, Muckerheide and many others presenting hormesis to Doctors for Disaster Preparedness meetings, freely downloaded at www.ddponline.org  ).
   
  It harms the public to deprive it of enough background radiation (whether from waste or medical sources), for longevity and resistance to cancer. This is clear in animal and cell experimantation as well as being where there is more radiation: nuclear shipyards, higher home radon, Denver, etc. Do not deprive the public of a supplement apparently as essential as vitamins.
   
  Howard Long MD MPH (epidemiology)