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RE: Dirty Bomb
I believe that the EPA says first responders are "allowed" to receive doses
of up to 25 rem [lifesaving] for one incident, not that they should "expect"
them.
Cheers,
Catherine
Catherine S. Perham
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-----Original Message-----
From: John Jacobus [mailto:crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM]
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 3:54 PM
To: radsafe@list.Vanderbilt.Edu
Subject: Re: Dirty Bomb
The problem with using exposures to populations in
Iran, Brazil, etc. is that the exposures are
protracted. First reponders will be receiving an
accute exposure. I would prefer quoting the position
paper of the HPS:
http://hps.org/documents/radiationrisk.pdf
--- RadSafeInst <RadSafeInst@cableone.net> wrote:
> I liked Richard's answer to Mr. Molino. Let's
> compare responder doses to those the people in
> Kerala, India or Ramsar, Iran (and a couple of
> places in Brazil and China that I forget) receive
> without any apparent harmful effects. They are 10 to
> 25 times higher than our average of about 360mR.
> Furthermore, in guidance from the EPA it is stated
> that Responders might expect doses of 5 Rem in a
> typical incident (10 if protecting valuable
> property, and 25 if life-saving). It is doubtful
> that a terrorist could ever produce such doses with
> a dirty bomb made from something Am-241) so hard to
> vaporize or to suspend in the atmosphere for any
> significant time.
>
>
> Ed Battle
>
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John Jacobus, MS
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