Re: Fw: Limited radiation exposure may actually benefit health:NCRPpub

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

No, Howard, I am not a regulator, but I am involved

with the ensuring regulatory compliance of  our

researchers.  As a consequence I have read much on

this issue.



I do not believe in the LNT, nor hormesis.  They are

either side of a coin that should not have any

influence on our use of radiation sources at low

activity levels, e.g., nuclear power plants,

diagnostic medicine.



--- Howard Long <hflong@pacbell.net> wrote:

> Radsci list members, please post comment on Gary's

> question to the radsafe

> list, below.

> I have little knowledge of the NCRP position and I

> disclose a long-learned

> bias favoring hormesis. John seems to be a

> regulator, so may have bias

> favoring simple LNT, which does not require a

> calculation of predicted

> benefit to deduct from predicted harm to determine

> risk.

> 

> Howard Long

> 

> ----- Original Message ----- 

> From: <garyi@trinityphysics.com>

> To: <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 12:52 PM

> Subject: Re: Limited radiation exposure may actually

> benefit health

> 

> 

> > John and Howard,

> >

> > Has the NCRP ever published anything documenting

> or directly supporting

> beneficial

> > effects of radiation?  Is their position simply

> silence on the issue, or

> are they firmly

> > decided that there are no beneficial effects?

> >

> > Thanks,

> > Gary Isenhower

> >

>

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John Jacobus, MS

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