Re: Hanford Site Cleanup Standards

[BLHamrick@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 9/2/2003 8:39:22 AM Pacific Standard Time, 

liptonw@DTEENERGY.COM writes:

Regarding your statement that, "... there has been no documented health 

effect among the non-worker public from radioactive contamination at Hanford.":  I 

suppose that if someone were issued a citation for speeding, all he'd have to 

say is that, since there was no accident, he can't be issued a citation.  Or, 

failing that, argue that the speed limit is too low.  As I stated, the issue 

isn't criminal behavior, it's accountability for the results and lessons 

learned.  Legislation and public opinion have determined that current conditions at 

Hanford, and several other sites, are not acceptable, and must be remediated"

I think the point is, and you make it, there aren't "results."  If there are 

no documented health effects, and they didn't exceed the limits in place at 

the time, then what "results" are there for which to indict anyone for anything?



Barbara