Re: " New ICRP guidelines to 'clarify' collective dose, Dicus says"

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

I stand corrected.



--- "Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe@UCDAVIS.EDU> wrote:



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At 05:32 AM 3/26/2004, Kai Kaletsch wrote:

Doesanyone have a working definition for "potential

probability"?*********************************************************************

March 26, 2004



This phrase is not redundant. In this case the word

"potential"means more than just "possible". It implies

an existingmechanism and real capability of

significant injury. It's like"potential energy"; it

really exists although it might notalways be

manifested or unleased.



Otto









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-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com



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