Re: Commenting on USNRC Environmental Impact Statements

[BERNARD L COHEN <blc+@PITT.EDU>]

On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 mark.hogue@SRS.GOV wrote:

>

> The question is this: Is the process of  calculating deaths in this

> fashion really a mandate to the NRC? I would think that in light of much

> discussion to the contrary, that a threshold value should be used.



	--I think the EIS should, at least, contain a statement about the

controversy over LNT; it might quote the Health Physics Society Position

Paper. Of course it could contain a summary of arguments that LNT gives a

gross over-estimate of effects of low level radiation, or include a list

of references on that.



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