Re: Edward Radford (1922-2001)

["High Plains Drifter" <magna1@jps.net>]

I really wonder what the dosimetry was that could detect 37 mrem over a four

year period.  Assuming (I know) it was uniform that's 9.25 mrem per year or

.778 mrem per month.  Most utilities during that time did not probably have

dosimetry that would  accurately measure such an exposure without an error

value of 100 percent.  Evidently the defense did not have their act together

to combat such a ludicrous value.



"In science there is only physics; everything else is stamp collecting."

                                      --Ernest Rutherford



Dean Chaney, CHP, IBA (aka High Plains Drifter)

Fairfield, CA

magna1@jps.net

----- Original Message -----

From: "Ted Rockwell" <tedrock@CPCUG.ORG>

To: "Jacobus, John (OD/ORS)" <jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov>; "Otto G. Raabe"

<ograabe@UCDAVIS.EDU>; <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 1:49 PM

Subject: RE: Edward Radford (1922-2001)





> > I hope he did more than this.

>

> John:

>

> He did, indeed!  He testified in court that ALARA without limit was

> understood to be part of a licensee's legal obligation, and that an

employee

> who had received a total of 37 mrem total in 4 years was not adequately

> protected if the utility COULD have reduced his dosage even further.  The

> judge was duly impressed, and confirmed that legal obligation in the court

> record.

>

> Radford was cited, along with Sternglass and Caldecott, by Meinhold, NCRP

> President, as constituting one position with regard to radiation

protection,

> to be balanced against Pollycove, Cohen and Feinendegen, with NCRP neatly

in

> the center.  (Reminds me of the Mutt & Jeff cartoon where Mutt admitted

that

> he used some horse meat in his rabbit pies.  How much?  "50-50.  One

horse,

> one rabbit.")

>

> I have both these points documented in writing (but I no longer have the

> cartoon)..

>

> A wonderful legacy!

>

> Ted Rockwell

>

>

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