Re: Why effects of LDR differ from metabolism

[Susan Gawarecki <loc@ICX.NET>]

This argument falls apart once you limit the resources available for

mitigating all types of risk--and that is the real world.  After all,

how much money does the government (and by extension regulated entities)

devote to feeding the starving--a much more immediate means of saving

lives--vs. regulating radiation exposure?  What is the cost-benefit

analysis?



My own opinion,

Susan Gawarecki



Jack Earley wrote:

I was taught that biological response is usually a spectrum of values,

and in the regulatory arena, you protect for the sensitive person, not

the average or those at one end of the spectrum of responses. 



Is this the same reasoning that supports the concept that "if it saves

even one life, isn't it worth the cost?"? 

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