Re: ALARA and "what is safe enough"

[RuthWeiner@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 3/10/02 4:16:54 AM Mountain Standard Time, joseroze@NETVISION.NET.IL writes:



> If the risk of harm to the health of the most exposed individual is trivial, then the total risk is trivial -
>
> irrespective of how many people are exposed”


what a great idea!  Actually, this is the governing principle for "environmental justice" -- if the environmental impact is not significant, it is not significant to any affected population.


However, if this were adopted, we can expect arguments over the definition of "trivial."


Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.

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