Re: Dirty bombs

[Steven Dapra <sjd@swcp.com>]

December 22



	In reply to Jerry Cohen, there are no logical or scientific reasons to

support the continuing application of LNT.  LNT is supported for regulatory

reasons or for politically motivated reasons.



	Regulatory agencies are in the business of regulation - that is their

raison d'etre.  LNT denies the existence of thresholds.  If it can be shown

that there are thresholds regulation has to stop at that point and the

regulators are out of a job.  It's a matter of power too.  Regulators have

the power to force their LNT regs on everyone, and having amassed this

power they are loath to relinquish it.



	The politically motivated reasons come primarily from left-wing extremists

who are determined to destroy the entire nuclear industry.  If they can't

directly outlaw it they can use LNT to regulate the industry until the cost

of complying with the regulations makes it prohibitive to operate.  (Of

course they have a little stumbling block in the form of nuclear medicine.

I suspect there are a goodly number of anti-nukers who would not be alive

were it not for nuclear medicine.)



Steven Dapra

sjd@swcp.com







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