[ RadSafe ] Improper Application of ALARA following stabilization of Fukushima Nuclear Reactors

[Clayton J Bradt]

Sandy, I'm not so sure we agree. What I'm saying is that requiring any 
form of judgement by government officials as to the relative importance of 
several variables is a non-starter. They will never risk being wrong. The 
only way to include disparate factors such as emotional and economic 
stress into an evacuation decision is to force all factors on to a single 
continuum, devising a score for each and then adding them up to get a 
single decision level. In that case an official would look at the total 
score and compare it to some guidance document and viola, the decision is 
made! No judgement required and the official can't be criticized because 
he was just following guidance. 

Clayton 


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Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:46:34 +0000
From: "Perle, Sandy" <sperle at mirion.com>
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Improper Application of ALARA following
                 stabilization of Fukushima Nuclear Reactors
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Clayton, I agree. ALARA needs to assess the effect on radiation dose and 
other influence factors need to be evaluated on their own merits, emotion, 
stress, socio-economic, etc. It is nearly impossible to consider SALARA 
and then add these other factors on top. Those factors will always be 
there!

Regards,

Sandy