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Re: NCRP bias?
It is also important to remember that the NCRP gets
funding from outside sources, like the NRC, DOE, DOD,
NASA, etc. Consequently, the NCRP is ask to look into
questions, such as what is the risk of Kr-86 to the
population from reactor operations, what guidelnes are
needed for same use of radiography sources, etc.
However, the NCRP does not set policy. Congress and
the regulatory agencies do.
I think it is interesting that anti-nuclear forces
quote NRC or EPA regulations, not NCRP reports.
--- howard long <hlong@pacbell.net> wrote:
> NCRP is needed to help prevent unusual, high dose
> radiation damage.
>
> However, like health insurers (esp. governmental),
> NCRP staff grows by
> forcing itself into areas it does more harm than
> good, like low dose
> radiation. Likewise, health insurers expand their
> territory into primary
> care (under c $3,000 deductible) where self-managed
> care with medical
> savings accounts has been proven better and cheaper.
>
> The anatomic equivalent of these unlimited social
> expansions is CANCER.
> NCRP regulates low dose radiation that is
> everywhere, as government also
> regulates doctor visits. Metastases are predictable
> - unless given the
> social equivalent of 5,000 rads to the sites. After
> radiation oncology
> restores normal death to old cells, normal
> functions can regrow in the body
> politic.
>
. .
=====
-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail: crispy_bird@yahoo.com
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