Re: get a load of this!

[Leo Bobek <bobek@WPI.EDU>]

On Thu, 21 Jul 1994, Ted M. de Castro wrote:

> >>What I think, Hector, is that it's hard to be coherent when one is 
> >>sputtering with outrage!
> 
> Thanks Sue!!  My sentimdnts exactly!!  I was too outraged to even reply!!
> 
> Petty bureaucrats!!!  Only black and white laws so there is never a need to 
> think nor a question of whether or not to fine!!
> 
> We effectively have the same problem with DOE!!
> 
> They talk "graded approach" and their regs talk SHALL and SHOULD - but when 
> it comes to audit time it is an audit to FULL implimentation and "all sins 
> are equal" whether it is a "violation" of a should or a shall!
>  
> I don't see it EVER getting and better!
> 

The regulators are controlled by Congress who are in turn responding to 
the radiation paranoria of the public.

Again - WE must respond to the over-regulation by educating ourselves about 
the TRUE (not extrapolated!) low level radiation effects and then EDUCATE 
the public.  WE are the professionals.  WORK with your local HPS or ANS 
section.  Setup a Teachers Workshop.  Volunteer to speak at a high-school.  
Write letters of response to negative media reports.  Better yet, write your 
CONGRESSMAN and explain how this over-regulation is affecting the 
research being done.  If WE could turn around the NRC Fee Policy, why 
can't WE reverse this regulatory insanity???  

'Nuff Said - Now Get to Work!