[ RadSafe ] UNSCEAR low-level exposure report

[Jerry Cohen]

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From: "Victor Anderson" <victor.anderson at frontier.com>
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> Good Morning,
>
> An interesting report full of much bureaucratic waffle language.  To be
> chartable, these various groups do have to exercise some caution in their
> statements and recommendations.  Having written that, I have spent some 
> time
> looking at various articles on LNT.  The vast majority of these articles
> question LNT use at low dose rates.  My opinion is that many 
> administrators
> who don't understand radiation relay on LNT risk estimates because it 
> makes
> life simple.  Its real easy to do the third grade math and convince 
> yourself
> and others that this is a "real" risk with "real cancer deaths" in the
> thousands to tens of thousands.  Next, comes the call for more regulations
> and more budget and more staff.  With more budget and staff comes 
> promotions
> and more pay.  Thus, government organizations like the EPA end up in
> entrenched positions like the one on Radon or their infamous remediation
> rules.  Sadly, this is fed by unscientific studies published by the
> anti-nuclear crowd.  I had one person tell me that birds were falling out 
> of
> the sky in Northern California during the height of the Fukushima 
> releases.
> Being the guy in charge of the state's monitoring of air, etc., I knew 
> that
> this was just hysteria.  I tried to explain to this person that he had not
> been told the truth.  It was like dealing with some weird version of
> Orwell's 1984.  The best I can get was an acknowledgment that maybe I knew
> what I was talking about.  Its going to take a lot of work to counter the
> hysterical and untrue anti-radiation, anti-nuclear propaganda.  I don't 
> have
> a good answer.
>
> Victor
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu
> [mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Carol Marcus
> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 6:32 PM
> To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] UNSCEAR low-level exposure report
>
>
>
> Dear Steve:
>
> This is the same report.
>
> Ciao, Carol
>
> On 2/6/2013 6:12 PM, Steven Dapra wrote:
>> Feb. 6
>>
>>     Try this link:
>>
>> http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/67/46
>>
>>     The report is 21 pages of PDF with footnotes and no bibliography.
>>
>>     The quote in the William Tucker article will be found on page 10
>> of the linked report.  The portion of the report that discusses LL
>> exposure is Chapter III, which begins on page 9.
>>
>> Steven Dapra
>>
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