Re: Environmentalism & the US Constitution

["Jerry Cohen" <jjcohen@PRODIGY.NET>]

Ruth,

    I'm afraid I must respectfully disagree with you. While the Atomic

Energy Act may be somewhat reasonable, the HWPA is a total abomination based

on the supposition that nuclear waste poses a threat of unique  severity and

of duration. Rational analysis reveals this supposition is simply not true.

If you try to justify the NWPA as a reflection of inordinate public fear

then I think a strong case can be made that it serves more to aggravate this

fear than to placate it.

    Safe management of nuclear waste could, if rationally done, be a

relatively easy and inexpensive task. Of course, those who have been riding

on the nuclear waste gravy train for these many years would never allow that

to happen.   Jerry







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From: <RuthWeiner@AOL.COM>

To: "David Whitfill" <djwhitfill@MSN.COM>; <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 4:12 PM

Subject: Re: Environmentalism & the US Constitution





> I would like to expand a bit on my first post to this thread.  Most of

what many of us (including me) find objectionable in the federal

implementation of radiation protection is in regulation, not law.  The

Atomic Energy Act and the NWPA are perfectly good laws.  Again, it is some

of their implementation with which I find fault.  I believe the focus of

radiation protection regulation is too much on reducing the dose (or modeled

dose) way beyond what can actually be considered health protection.  For

example, 40 CFR 191 was a perfectly good reg, and there was no need, in my

opinion, to replace it with a dose standard that is poorly supported, if at

all, by documentation.  Unfortunately, EPA is adotpting this same stance for

air pollutants (applying a LNT) which i think is dead wrong.

>

> we should be arguing against the implementation, not against the law.

>

> Ruth

>

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