[ RadSafe ] Re: First Ever Intentional Hormetic X-Ray

[QuitMed]

Correct me if I am wrong but can't you get an annual change of 0.05 - 5.00
mrem by just moving down the street or spending more time playing with the
kids in the basement?
JLC
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <BLHamrick at aol.com>
To: <crispy_bird at yahoo.com>; <AnaLog at logwell.com>;
<Floyd.Flanigan at nmcco.com>; <ellison1 at localnet.com>; <radsafe at radlab.nl>
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Re: First Ever Intentional Hormetic X-Ray


>
> In a message dated 4/20/2005 5:59:27 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
> crispy_bird at yahoo.com writes:
>
> Recently,
> you have EPA requiring remedication to 25 mrem  annual
> exposure limits.  From the most serious hazards to  the
> truely trivial.
>
>
>
> Actually, EPA's proposed guideline was 15 millirem per year, some years
ago.
>  That position has been rescinded, and they tend to bristle (in my
opinion)
> at any use of dose as a criterion for remediation.  The official  message
now
> is that risk, not dose is the appropriate measure for remedial  actions
> (although how you get any risk without dose is beyond me).  CERCLA
regulations
> recommend remaining within the risk range of 1E-6 to 1E-4 increased
cancer risk
> over a lifetime, or in very generic terms (which the EPA also has
pooh-poohed)
> about 0.05 to 5.0 millirem per year.
>
> Barbara L. Hamrick
>
>