Re: Nuclear Medicine Patients and Homeland Security

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@EARTHLINK.NET>]

On 30 Dec 2003 at 11:01, Carol Marcus wrote:



> there is a large margin 

> of safety built into 35.75 that virtually assures that no member of

> the public will get >500mrem (doing the calculations correctly, of

> course, not doing bizarre NRC-style calculations that expand time,

> shrink distance, and ignore shielding). 



Unless it's a homeless person who happens to be sleeping next to 

someone else for an extended period of time!  Serioulsy, I think this 

is a lot about nothing. There is no consequence. Simply a lot of 

continuiing hype and fear of radiation perpetuated by those who 

should know better. Scientifically speaking, a waste of everyone's 

effort.

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