RE: How do we educate people on the realities of risk?

["Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe@UCDAVIS.EDU>]

December 24, 2002

Davis, CA



It is important for us to communicate the obvious: Low doses of ionizing

radiation of the order of natural background delivered at low dose rates (1

to 2 mSv or 100 to 200 mrem per year above background) are clearly SAFE.

There is no significant risk associated with these exposures.



The main problem in radiation protection today is not "risk communication",

but rather OVER-CAUTION and OVER-PROTECTION, either of which may be

expensive and wasteful.



Otto



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Prof. Otto G. Raabe, Ph.D., CHP

Center for Health & the Environment

(Street Address: Bldg. 3792, Old Davis Road) 

University of California, Davis, CA 95616

E-Mail: ograabe@ucdavis.edu

Phone: (530) 752-7754   FAX: (530) 758-6140

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