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Quiz: HP, regulations & time (Re: Prefer a Technical Track for the)
You wrote:
.....
These
are applied sciences, and some of the application
is frankly political. For
example, if we did not have the Clean Air Act of
1970, we would not have
research into air pollution or engineering of air
pollution controls. Of we
did not have the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, we
probably wouldn't have health
physics!
.....
Ruth,
1.1 I am glad that you have reminded to us these
facts.
1.2 It seems sometimes, that Health Physicis
there was first and Radiation with the Protection
came later.
2.1 Facts:
2.2 It took an act of congress to create an HP.
Question:
3. Whose act will it take to stop an HP? :-)
4.1 More seriously,
4.2 Things are always changing and the change is
GOOD.
5.1 So, Keeping prospective,
5.2 If there was a beginning then there should be
an end.
Logical?
Let's speculate about an HP future little bit.
Here is a question for the next quiz:
Question:
Under which of the following conditions there
will be NO HP?
a. When, NRC will become DOE.
b. When, DOE will become NRC
c. When, there will be NO Radiation.
d. When, it will be proven that low doses of the
Ionized Radiation are Healthy and the Title HP
(Health Physicist) will be changed to HPT (Health
Physics Therapist)
e. When, there is NO meter (radiation detection
instrument).
f. When, there is no phone to call an HP.
g. Never, because it takes an act of the US
Congress to create a profession but it will take
an act of God to have job done = PROTECT Health
WITHOUT Creating and Exploiting FEARS
(radiophobias).
i. All of the above.
Good Luck and Happy Whatever You Do or Planning
to Do!
Emil.
P.S.
The quiz is free and only for the HP
entertainment purposes, any similarities with the
real persons and events are purely coincidental,
The quiz can not be reproduced without author's
written permission.
>>>>>>>>
From: RuthWeiner@AOL.COM
In response to Harry Newman (even though he said
not to):
1. Health physics, risk assessment, and
environmental assessment were all ,
it seems to me, born in a political (or at least
politicized) context. These
are applied sciences, and some of the application
is frankly political. For
example, if we did not have the Clean Air Act of
1970, we would not have
research into air pollution or engineering of air
pollution controls. Of we
did not have the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, we
probably wouldn't have health
physics!
2. A number of apparently political questions
have technical responses, and
vice versa. Is the controversy over the LNT
technical, political, or both?
I have often responded technically to overtly
political statements about
pollution from coal plants.
3. I get annoyed by some of the anti-nuke
nonsense, and I would wish for an
end to pointless name-calling. However, I really
enjoy the free-flowing
discussions on RADSAFE, which I find a relaxing
break from the technical
analyses I do day in and day out.. If I don't
have time, I just delete.
So I prefer to have RADSAFE stay just as it is.
Here is a truly off-topic aphorism for your
reading pleasure: just remember
that everything Fred Astaire did, Ginger Rogers
did backwards and in high
heels.
Happy New Year!
Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.
ruthweiner@aol.com
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