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RE: Demise of UNSCEAR?
How does assigning UNSCEAR to the IAEA kill it? Particularly since several
reports have come out since 1994. And I thought DOE was targeting money for
programs on low dose effects, including hormesis.
I guess you can find a conspiracy in everything if you look hard enough.
-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
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From: Muckerheide [mailto:muckerheide@attbi.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 11:54 PM
To: Jerry Cohen; Jacobus, John (NIH/OD/ORS); radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: Re: Demise of UNSCEAR?
Right. 1994 App B caused NCRP, ICRP and Fed agencies to kill UNSCEAR by
assigning it to the IAEA. Like when DOE tried to kill RERF by assigning it
from NAS to Howe at Columbia (bought just for that). In both cases there was
a defense by those who understood the trashing of integrity. But surviving
isn't enough. With RERF, DOE created a "Blue Ribbon Committee" given to
Roger Clark to get RERF "under control." RERF was "redirected" got new
"staff" (RERF was already terrified by DOE killing the CHR, which was also a
"lifetime" program, but it "got the wrong answers.")
With UNSCEAR, it "survived" being killed by being assigned to IAEA, but U.S.
And UK and allied interests have worked to reduce its funding. We can work
to "save it," but we can expect it to be compromised if it "survives" by
satisfying U.S., UK, etc., to get new funds through the UN.
Just saw Gentner in Oxford. He's blatantly misrepresenting facts. See the
"Save UNSCEAR" item at:
http://cnts.wpi.edu/docs
But following Oxford, I suspect that "survival" at any price may not be
warranted.
Anyway, Roger Clarke, knowing that rad protection can't stand up to a
science inquiry, threatened by RSH and Domenici's $20 M/yr for "rad health
effects research" (which is no threat, DOE is just continuing its previous
misdirected science funding, buying researchers) he totally separated rad
protection from health effects for the 2005 ICRP revisions!? (Draft should
be on the ICRP site in Dec. If anybody cares - not - target your national
participation in IRPA-11, May 2004, Madrid.)
. . .
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