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Re: TFP update article, E Magazine; replies to all
Hi, Sandy,
Thanks for the reply. What's interesting in the minds of some antis (and
remember, I was on the road to being one without questioning) is that the
government limits are meaningless. I was trying to relate it to more
natural things. I think the argument can be made to the general population
more in terms of chest x-rays, background radiation, etc., than the gov't regs.
I understand where you're coming from, but if the regs are under suspicion,
then it doesn't help.
Cheers,
Richard
At 09:25 PM 09/16/2002 -0700, Sandy Perle wrote:
>On 16 Sep 2002 at 20:04, Richard L. Hess wrote:
>
> > However, is 70 curies a large amount of radiation to
> > be released and spread across a wide area?
>
>The number of curies released is a relative emission. The real question to
>be asked and
>answered is how did the 70 curies relate to the allowable emission from
>the plant(s).
>One method the anti-nukes like to use is they relate to all of the
>releases from a plant.
>I'm surprised that they don't refer to the releases in millicuries, to get
>a bigger jolt from
>the public. What they never mention in the same news release or public
>statements is
>that there are government regulated allowable releases, established with
>risk statistics,
>very conservatively.
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