Risk-Based Standards are BOGUS

["Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe@UCDAVIS.EDU>]

February 16, 2004

Davis, CA



Risk-based standards for radiation doses smaller than 0.01 Sv (1000 mRem) are bogus! So are all of the risk values found in Federal Guidance Report No. 13.  That is because these risk values are fabricated from an imaginary hypothetical linear mathematical risk model that makes no biological sense and conflicts with actual observations and common sense. Federal Guidance Report No. 13 pretends to give risk values per Bq (27 pCi) for a comprehensive list of radionuclides, when, in fact, not one of these values was based on any actual biological observations of effects from any of these radionuclides! 



Now, our country is spending a fortune trying to protect people from these imaginary risks. How much better off we would be if that same money were used to discover effective cures for cancer or converting to an oil-free power economy.



Otto



                Brenner, D.J and O.G. Raabe, Topics under debate - Is the linear-no-threshold hypothesis                appropriate for use in radiation protection?, Radiation Protection Dosimetry 97: 279-285, 2001





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Prof. Otto G. Raabe, Ph.D., CHP

Center for Health & the Environment

(Street Address: Bldg. 3792, Old Davis Road) 

University of California, Davis, CA 95616

E-Mail: ograabe@ucdavis.edu

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