Re: COGEMA Says No to LNT

[Paul lavely <lavelyp@UCLINK4.BERKELEY.EDU>]

Thanks Rick.



The entire report can be read at:  http://www.safeenergy.org/cogema.pdf

The dose involved is found in:



  COGEMA has decided to arrogate the authority to decide that there is 

a threshold of radiation dose, 3 millirem, that can be considered as 

a "zero impact" dose. This flies in the face of all accepted official 

conclusions on which prevailing health and environmental regulations 

are based. While there continue to be uncertainties and debate on 

radiation risk, all official bodies, including those that have 

recently reviewed the risks of radiation exposure, have concluded 

that the best hypothesis is that there is no threshold below which 

there is no risk. Moreover, COGEMA's suggested threshold of 3 

millirem whole body dose would in some cases violate U.S. 

regulations. In the case of iodine-129, for instance, the implied 

contamination of drinking water at 3 millirem whole body equivalent 

exposure is 25 times the allowable safe drinking water limit. 

COGEMA's rejection of the very basis of U.S. radiation protection 

regulations and the science that underlies it is a major challenge to 

the integrity of U.S. radiation protection regulations.



  Paul lavely <lavelyp@uclink4.berkeley.edu>

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