Re: We are killing nuclear workers!

[Bernard L Cohen <blc+@pitt.edu>]

On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Jim Muckerheide wrote:

> What is the nuclear industry/health physics community response to this as a
> failure of "radiation protection," killing (past and future) nuclear workers
> that we told were protected?

	There may be a legitimate issue here if enrichment plants,  which
had no programs for radiation protection because they normally do not
handle radioactive material (except uranium), did process radioactive
materials without instituting radiation protection measures. Does anyone
know if this was the case?
	If it was not, Health Physics Society should use its public
relations facilities to protest this action very vigorously.

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