RE: Media's bias

[joseroze@netvision.net.il]

The  association of anti-nuke against nuclear medicine  seems to me like

someone that intends to look for needle in haystack or in a  drop of ocean 

water.

Anti-nuke knows about radioactive waste used in nuclear medicine in the

general context of Radwaste manageament.

What is out of the reality is today the USA Authority yet using the 

defining radioactive material as any material having a specific activity

greater than 74 Bq/g.

It was recognized that the single exemption level of 74 Bq/g has no dose

basis and that it was unlikely that this level satisfied the primary dose

criteron of 10 microsievert in a year for exemption for all radionuclides.

values in the BSS as resulted in recommended activity concentrations

ranging from 1 to 106 Bq/g.

Please take a look at CLEARANCE OF MATERIALS RESULTING FROM THE USE OF

RADIONUCLIDES IN MEDICINE, INDUSTRY AND RESEARCH IAEA, VIENNA, 1998

IAEA-TECDOC-1000

Get the full text at 

http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/te_1000_prn.pdf

and you can understand what many anti-nukes around the world knows probably

better of many HP on  general beliefs.



Jose Julio Rozental

joseroze@netvision.net.il

Israel





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