Re: ARTICLE: Fallout likely caused 15,000 deaths

[hflong@postoffice.pacbell.net]

Paul,

The threshhold dose I nominate is Luckey's - 50 cGy (rem, rad for closest to

source).

"SAFE  - For ___ hours here, more good than harm is likely (<50 rad)."



Another might be, "No one has ever had symptoms from ___ hours of this

exposure."

(<100 rem).



Howard Long



Paul lavely wrote:



> Your sign wording is fine; however, I need to know what the dose is

> that we will regard as safe. Some would say that less than 100 mrem

> is okay. Other point to NCRP (or is it ICRP) that 1 mrem is "okay."

>

> So, if folks can decide on a dose that is safe - and if we can get

> the regulators to agree - the signage will not be a problem.

>

> Remember that we have recently seen a major facility closed based at

> least in part on doses to the public of less than 0.1 millirem per

> year.

>

> Paul

> lavelyp@uclink4.berkeley.edu

>

> >"SAFE"  SIGN?

> >Paul,

> >How about you posting an example of a "SAFE" sign wording that HPs

> >could put up in areas where people would have the fears you listed,

> >like after a "dirty" explosion.

> >

> >You could do better than this,

> >SAFE

> >to be in ___ feet of here, for ___ hours

> >without worry of any ill effect from radiation.

> >(signed, John Doe, Health Physicist [date])

> >phone # ____

> >Howard Long

>

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