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

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Jerry

Is your paper available in an electronic form? If so, could you copy it to 
me; off RADSAFE?

John


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <jjcohen at prodigy.net>
To: "stewart farber" <radproject at sbcglobal.net>; "Norm Cohen" 
<ncohen12 at comcast.net>; <radsafe at radlab.nl>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 5:23 PM
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] FW: tritium info -& Parkinson's law


> 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
>> Consulting Scientist
>> Farber Technical Services
>> 1285 Wood Ave.
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>> email: radproject at sbcglobal.net
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- 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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