Re: Deadly Waste

[Muckerheide <muckerheide@attbi.com>]

on 7/10/02 10:30 PM, Norman Cohen at ncohen12@comcast.net wrote:



> 

> Brian -

> Do I get a salary for being 'your' spokesman? ;-)

> As to your question, its not an area that, outside of what I read on

> radsafe, I'm that familiar with. I would agree that there

> appear to be times when the standards are set too low. On the other

> hand, I'd rather err on the side of caution in setting those standards.

> So I guess a terse "no comment" is where I'll have to be on this one.

> 

> norm



Norm,



See how you lose all credibility!?  Knowing NOTHING about radiation health

effects, you know with certainty that:



1) EPA's limit is 4 mrem/year for exposure of people to NATURAL

radionuclides in drinking water (rule issued Dec 2000). That same limit is

set by EPA/DOE/NRC for water from Yucca Mountain (doses estimated 100,000+

years in the future, with highly conservative calculations that overstate

the doses). 



No one on the planet is exposed to less than about 60 mrem/year (internal

K-40, sea level cosmic rays, K-40 in the ground). Substantial populations

are exposed to 600 mrem/year, some populations are exposed to 6,000

mrem/year, with small local groups exposed to 10s of thousands of mrem/year

(with no adverse health effects, and some indication of health benefits at

high natural doses - including thousands of years that radium/radon health

spas have been known to produce improved health.)



There can therefore be NO POSSIBLE health protection from a (very costly,

i.e., profitable, rad protection) limit of 4 mrem!



2) Doctors send millions of patients every year to nuclear medicine and

radiology diagnostic procedures that expose millions of people to hundreds

of times EPA limits every year. Overwhelmingly, people ignorantly go to get

their radiation while being terrorized about trivial rad levels at extreme

rad protection limits.



Note again: If the rad protectionists are right about rad dose health

effects, radiologists are mass murderers! But the NCRP/ICRP and its minions

are NOT right. And they know they are not right. They could not be so

specific about terminating research and misrepresenting data and selecting

key, otherwise unqualified people to appoint to committees and lucrative

academic positions.



Regards, Jim Muckerheide





> Brian Keele wrote:

> 

>>  Norm:  As our spokesman for the radical movement, what is your

>> opinion regarding spending several billion dollars to remediate

>> retired facilities and contaminated land to ultra low

>> standards? Regulators:  How can you justify such ultra-low standards

>> when there are so many real problems in the world that could be fixed

>> for a whole lot less money? Brian Keele Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002

>> 07:08:09 -0700



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