Re: Amchitka

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

Just because there is no evidence of an effect does

not mean that mean there is no effect.  Ask Donald

Rumsfeld.



--- Michael McNaughton <mcnaught@LANL.GOV> wrote:



> At 12:56 AM 08/18/2004, maury wrote:

> >(Which I'd think would negate DOE funding to do

> more studies.)

> 

> In the DOE world, there is politics and there is

> science. The words "it's 

> still unclear whether radioactive particles released

> underground by 

> Cannikin and two smaller nuclear test blasts on the

> island are leaking" 

> typically mean it's been studied and nothing has

> been detected, therefore 

> more study is needed. I often hear HPs say LNT is

> only of academic 

> interest. However, I spend a lot of time dealing

> with the public perception 

> of micro-rem-per-year doses. To paraphrase Dr Seuss:

> a photon's a photon no 

> matter how small.

> 

> mike

> 

> 

> Mike McNaughton

> Los Alamos National Lab.

> email: mcnaught@LANL.gov or mcnaughton@LANL.gov

> phone: 505-667-6130; page: 505-664-7733

> 

>

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-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

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