Re: More on St Lucie incident

["Richard L. Hess" <lists@richardhess.com>]

At 11:46 PM 10/14/2002 -0400, Muckerheide wrote:

>An industry that's nuclear power's worst enemy - seemingly committed to

>ignorance in its inability to :

>

>on 10/14/02 11:09 AM, Norman Cohen at ncohen12@comcast.net wrote:

>

> > what FPL called "very low" levels of radiation, in the 1- to 2-millirem 

> range.

>Radiation is measured in rems; the annual exposure limit for nuclear workers,

>according to the NRC, is 5 rems. It takes 1,000 millirems to equal 1 rem.



Right...they could have said:



More radiation is received in 2-3 transcontinental flights!



Cheers,



Richard



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