RE: Meeting public demand

[Jack_Earley@RL.GOV]

Maybe we could let the construction workers just decide for themselves how

they want to practice ALARA. Or they could negotiate w/ the regulators in

their next collective bargaining agreement.



Jack Earley

Radiological Engineer





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

From: William V Lipton [mailto:liptonw@DTEENERGY.COM]

Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 4:12 AM

To: Jerry Cohen

Cc: Vincent A King/KINGVA/CC01/INEEL/US; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

Subject: Re: Meeting public demand





Although science is important in determining the risk versus benefit

tradeoffs,

the ultimate decisions on radiation protection, or any other regulations,

are

political.



It's called democracy.  The only thing worse is anything else.

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