Re: Apparent anti-correlations between geographic radiationand cancer are no...

["Glenn marshall" <gmarshall@duratekinc.com>]

Being buried.  There is no risk to the dead person (only).



>>> "Jerry Cohen" <jjcohen@PRODIGY.NET> 01/13/03 02:12PM >>>

Doug,

    I am curious. How do you "definitively prove there is no risk involved" in any activity or enterprise? Could you please give us a few examples of no-risk activities?            Jerry





  ----- Original Message ----- 

  From: Doug Aitken 

  To: BERNARD L COHEN 

  Cc: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu 

  Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 7:35 AM

  Subject: RE: Apparent anti-correlations between geographic radiation and cancer are no...





  At 09:57 AM 1/13/2003 -0500, BERNARD L COHEN wrote:





    On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Doug Aitken wrote:

    >

    > But unnecessary or deliberate exposure to hazardous agents - where the

    > risk-benefit balance is not clear (and in this I guess I would throw

    > man-made radiation) - would seem to be unwise.



            --Nuclear power causes a hundred times fewer deaths than fossil

    fuel burning, and increses our radiation exposure by less than 1% -- does

    that make use of nuclear power unwise?



  Gee!

  Sometimes I get the feeling that people are so polarized that they do not even try to understand a comment...



  :..unnecessary or deliberate exposure to hazardous agents - where the risk-benefit balance is not clear .."



  I don't think anyone (on this forum) would argue that the emissions from coal burning power stations is more hazardous than (well managed) nuclear power. But until someone can definitively prove that there is no risk involved, a deliberate or unnecessary exposure would seem to me to be foolish.



  Regards

  Doug







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