Re: ALARA and "what is safe enough"

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

Bravo Sandy, people that equate ALARA to Safety evidently have no idea that

safety is a limit way out there, way far a way from ALARA.  ALARA IS NOT

RELATED TO SAFETY.   If you cannot get below the safety limit....it is

unsafe (period).  It is not unsafe if you are below the safety limit,

therefore the word "safe" cannot be use as a measure or qualifier for ALARA.



Dean Chaney, CHP



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

From: "Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@EARTHLINK.NET>

To: <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 1:16 PM

Subject: ALARA and "what is safe enough"





> > The question should be "What is safe enough  (ie ALARA)?" not "What is

> > safe?".

>

> One can not equate ALARA and "what is safe enough". They are not

synonymous. In

> facility A the ALARA goal need not be the same as facility B or C or D.

ALARA was

> never deemed to be considered equivalent to what is considered to be a

safe level.

> Please also note that the NRC (rightly so) removed the prescriptive levels

of what

> was to be considered ALARA in 10CFR20, as was once proposed.

>



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