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Re: [Fwd: Problems with SC-46 Quote] more from Ray
FYI
Norm
Raymond Shadis wrote:
> Re: NCRP 46-14 (DRAFT)
> This draft report was posted for comment on the NCRP website last fall.
> Each and every page (pdf) was marked, " Not to be disseminated or
> referenced." Kind of silly isn't it, given that NCRP put it on the
> WORLDWIDE web and asked for comments?
>
> The dose I mentioned was expressed in milligray as "integrated external dose
> 24 hrs post blast." High end was 6000 milligray and above. In my e-mail, I
> converted this to REM, based on a 1:1 RAD/REM ratio for the energy of Cs137,
> assumed to be the principal dose contributor in 5 year old fuel.
>
> Someone on the Radsafe list mentioned that the DRAFT is no longer available
> from NCRP's website. True, the final report, NCRP 138, as I said in my
> earlier e-mail, is out. $50.00 from NCRP. I purchased one. I also have the
> DRAFT report in both hardcopy and electronic media form. Persons affiliated
> with non-profit organizations promoting safe energy and radiation protection
> may apply for a free copy. Pro-nuclear cultists and industry folk are
> welcome to copies via US Mail at $100 a pop.
>
> Mr. Farber is somewhat disingenuous to say that in my message I made MUCH of
> the information in the report. I pointed it out and asked him to reconcile
> (meaning,justify) his views in the light of the report. My experience with
> the Radsafe list is that its most frequent and noisiest contributors do not
> do well at linear thought and are given to unsupported assertions, strained
> metaphors and ill-fitted comparisons. Serious scientists and technicians,
> both at NRC and in the nuclear power industry, have told me that they do not
> dispute the consequence figures in the NCRP SC 46-14 draft. It will be a
> divertissement to see what the Radsafe list have to say...and perhaps, more,
> how they say it.
> Ray
> Shadis
>
> Spokesman
>
> Friends of the Coast,
>
> Staff Advisor
> New
> England Coalition
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Norman Cohen <ncohen12@home.com>
> To: Raymond Shadis <shadis@ime.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 4:04 PM
> Subject: [Fwd: Problems with SC-46 Quote]
>
> >
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