Optimal Radiation. Is it a number?

[Kerembaev@cs.com]

Bob,

I can add to your picture more personal detail:
All levels HP specialists are lining up at the unemployment offices.
Today, it is a stick with two ends: On one end, we want that those levels to 
be lifted up, to make our job easier, on another end, it is not in HPs 
personal (job security) interest to have those levels higher. Very confusing, 
isn't it?
Is the job retraining for some of us a possible future option?

How much of radiation is optimum, today? That much, how much a person is 
willing to take +/- how much is giving by......government, army, boss, 
ex-boyfriend, etc.

For many years many thousands of people were receiving different levels of 
radiation dose. In each situation, there were part of known risk and unknown 
risk. Each period of time has variable risk data. Before of sometime after 
Becquerel's discovery of the radioactivity and Roentgen's X-rays discovery, 
the known risk was zero. Probably, right after when Maria Skladovskaya-Curie 
died from the cancer the known risk for the first time started moving up. So 
we are now somewhere in the middle.

I my opinion, it will not be a some break thru "Eureka" and "they" all will 
run to NPP nor there will be complete NPP or other nuclear installations 
close down. It will be ups and downs story. Until on some day.... Radiation 
will become more acceptable than unacceptable part of public life. When we 
will cross this line? I do not think that anybody knows when. We just need to 
work hard and smile.

Happy Thursday to Everyone!

Emil.
kerembaev@cs.com

Why people have three different languages, writing, spoken and thinking?
Why can't we write what we'yal say and say what we all think?

"Unknown Author"


In a message dated 1/26/00 12:10:38 Pacific Standard Time, 
hoover@sip-pmu.slavutich.kiev.ua writes:

<< >
 >Can you imagine what will happen if hormesis can be proven? Mobs at the
 >gates of our nuclear power plants demanding to be let in and given their
 >exposure? How dare you deprive me of my rightful dose?
 > >>
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