[ RadSafe ] FW: tritium info -& Parkinson's law

[jjcohen at prodigy.net]

Stewart,
    With regard to the environmental Tritium "problem", your note citing
Parkinson's Laws hits the nail right on the head. I gave a paper titled "The
Socioeconomic Impact of Tritium Releases to the Environment" at the 1972 EPA
Symposium on Tritium. I won't belabor the assessment methodology here, but
the results showed that under any reasonably conceivable scenario it would
be impossible to create a significant environmental health problem with
Tritium. Cost-benefit analysis indicated that any expenditure to prevent
Tritium release to the environment in excess of ten cents per curie released
could not be considered cost-effective. Needless to say, this work was not
well-received by those working on evaluation and control of Tritium releases
to the environment.
        Jerry Cohen



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "stewart farber" <radproject at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Norm Cohen" <ncohen12 at comcast.net>; <Know_Nukes at yahoogroups.com>;
<radsafe at radlab.nl>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 11:59 AM
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] FW: tritium info -& Parkinson's law


> Dear Colleagues,
>
> The famous writer C. Northcote Parkinson, father of "Parkinson's Law" [the
> amount of time it takes to do a job, expands to fill the time available to
> do it"], and a serious author and critic of organizations in his writings
> which included 60 books,
>
> See:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Northcote_Parkinson
>
> once stated:
> "The amount of time devoted to any item in an agenda, is inversely
> proportional to its sum"
>
> Translation:  the more trivial an item, the more attention it will receive
> [and vice versa].  The reality is that most "environmentalists" focus on
> trivial sources of total population exposure from nuclear facilities -
> thereby ignoring huge integrated population exposures, by comparison, from
> often avoidable natural variations in background, and from medical
> applications due to poor technique, lack of proper indications for a
> procedure,  CYA, etc.  The more unnecessary radiation exposure, the less
> attention paid and vice versa.
>
> The issue and focus on theoretical health effects of tritium posted by
Norm
> Cohen is a clear example of the above quote, and the foresight and
> universality of C. Northcote Parkinson's vision.
>
> Stewart Farber, MS Public Health
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>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Norm Cohen" <ncohen12 at comcast.net>
> To: <Know_Nukes at yahoogroups.com>; <radsafe at radlab.nl>
> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 1:47 PM
> Subject: [ RadSafe ] FW: tritium info
>
>
> > The new issue of Science and Democratic Action has an article on the
> > health
> > effects of tritium:
> >
> >
> >
> > http://www.ieer.org/sdafiles/14-4.pdf
> >
> >
> >
> > Norm
> >
> >
> >
> > Coalition for Peace and Justice; UNPLUG Salem Campaign, 321 Barr Ave,
> > Linwood; NJ08221; 609-601-8583; Cell Phone - 609-335-8176
> >
> >
> >
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