Re: Threshold

[muckerheide <muckerheide@attbi.com>]

Hi Sandy,

Confused. NRC talked about "cost."  Did they ever say there was NO risk? I

thought they said "very small," "trivial," "negligible," and otherwise as

just "too small to spend money on!" You can find a thousand places where the

case was. Why else would Congress tell NRC to stuff it?  :-)



See e.g., DOE:

http://www.em.doe.gov/peis/prop3322.html



One party said to Congress that instead of BRC it should be called

"Premeditated Random Institutional Murder (PRIM)."



Let me know if you have any ref where NRC said/documented that "there is no

risk below 10 mrem!!"  :-)



Regards, Jim

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 From: "Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>



> On 18 Apr 2002 at 21:35, muckerheide wrote:

> 

>> BRC effectively said, "low doses may be hazardous, but we don't care

>> because it costs too much to protect you." Congress intervened

>> (reasonably so).

> 

> Jim,

> 

> Your's is the first time I've seen anyone use the above

> rationalization. The only justification I've heard was that the BRC

> doses were such that there was no need for regulatory intervention in

> that there was no risk.

> 

> If you can refer me to documentation that states your position, I'd

> be happy to seek it out.

> 

> Thanks,

> 

> Sandy

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