[ RadSafe ] New York Times article “When Radiation Isn’t the Real Risk"

[parthasarathy k s]

Dear Dr Mohan Doss,
Thank you for sending me a copy of the article in The NYT
It is a very interesting development. There are only very few newspaper articles in the mainstream media discussing such topics. One of them was the article by Dr John Cameron a few years ago. I used to have thought provoking discussions with him
It is appropriate that the discussions of this type is no more confined to the lecture/conference halls and to scholarly bodies. LNT is admittedly a deficient hypothesis. Lack of a clearly identifiable threshold may continue to baffle regulators and other stake holders.I am not very convinced that by removing ALARA may make much of a change in the minds of radio-phobic individuals! Major problem is the association with "nuclear bombs" which evokes notions of leukemia,premature deaths etc.
I recall that the NRC has once commented on the report of the French Academy a few years ago. NRC then decided to retain the dose limits
With warm regards,Parthasarathy
 


     On Wednesday, 23 September 2015, 16:06, parthasarathy k s <ksparth at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
   

 Dear Dr Mohan Doss,
Thank you for sending me a copy of the article in The NYT
It is a very interesting development. There are only very few newspaper articles in the mainstream media discussing such topics. One of them was the article by Dr John Cameron a few years ago. I used to have thought provoking discussions with him
It is appropriate that the discussions of this type is no more confined to the lecture/conference halls and to scholarly bodies. LNT is admittedly a deficient hypothesis. Lack of a clearly identifiable threshold may continue to baffle regulators and other stake holders.I am not very convinced that by removing ALARA may make much of a change in the minds of radio-phobic individuals! Major problem is the association with "nuclear bombs" which evokes notions of leukemia,premature deaths etc.
I recall that the NRC has once commented on the report of the French Academy a few years ago. NRC then decided to retain the dose limits
With warm regards,Parthasarathy 


     On Wednesday, 23 September 2015, 5:29, "Doss, Mohan" <Mohan.Doss at fccc.edu> wrote:
   

  #yiv0556589299 #yiv0556589299 -- filtered {font-family:Calibri;panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}#yiv0556589299 p.yiv0556589299MsoNormal, #yiv0556589299 li.yiv0556589299MsoNormal, #yiv0556589299 div.yiv0556589299MsoNormal {margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:11.0pt;}#yiv0556589299 a:link, #yiv0556589299 span.yiv0556589299MsoHyperlink {color:blue;text-decoration:underline;}#yiv0556589299 a:visited, #yiv0556589299 span.yiv0556589299MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple;text-decoration:underline;}#yiv0556589299 span.yiv0556589299EmailStyle17 {color:windowtext;}#yiv0556589299 .yiv0556589299MsoChpDefault {}#yiv0556589299 filtered {margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}#yiv0556589299 div.yiv0556589299WordSection1 {}#yiv0556589299 Dear All,      FYI: New York Times has just published an article “When Radiation Isn’t the Real Risk"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/science/when-radiation-isnt-the-real-risk.html?_r=0  in their Science Times section.      With best regards,                                       Mohan       Mohan Doss, Ph.D., MCCPM Medical Physicist, Associate Professor, Diagnostic Imaging, Fox Chase Cancer Center, 333 Cottman Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19111-2497. Phone: 215 214-1707 Website:http://www.fccc.edu/research/pid/doss/ Blogs:http://mohan-doss-home-page.blogspot.com/    
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