Re: LNT and resources [Was: Scientific responsibility]

[maury <maury@webtexas.com>]

Here are current additional examples to consider in any cost/benefit analysis of

LNT:

Maury Siskel      maury@webtexas.com

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6. Understanding Hormesis can save billions $ -- on Superfund, nuclear

regulations, etc, etc



 A note from nuclear expert Mike Fox:



 Keep in mind that the DOE and Bechtel are engineering the vitrification plant

at Hanford (to glassify  Hanford wastes). The radiation dose to the future

worker is being engineered to 500 mrem/yr  maximum dose. This is costing the

taxpayers billions. A 600 mrem dose to a future worker would lead  to

Congressional investigations, lawsuits, lawyers, new groups of victims, media

frenzies, Greens  going apoplectic, and the media eating it all up. The only

people getting screwed are the taxpayers  who fund it all, and they don't know

it.



 And another from Klaus Becker in Berlin:



You may be interested to learn that the decommissioning of the German WAK pilot

reprocessing  plant will cost us poor taxpayers about 50-100 times of the

construction cost, mostly because the  release limit is 0.01 mSv/yr (or 1

mrem/yr in the old units)!



NB: The average exposure is usually given as 170 millirem per year (at sea

level) - but can be much greater  at high altitude (or from many airplane

flights or chest X-rays) and many times greater in certain geological  areas of

the world.



Source: http://www.sepp.org/weekwas/2003/Jun21.htm



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