Re: SI units

[JMUCKERHEIDE@delphi.com]

> I once read an article in the local newspaper, in which a member of 
> the environmental extreme, made the allegation that the attempt of 
> the radiation protection community to implement the recommendations 
> of the International Commission on Radiological Protection on new 
> units for measurement of radiation was meant to confuse anti-nukes, 
> just when they were getting the conventional units down.
> 
> I became an immediate convert ;^)> 
> 
>                Russ Meyer                            

And here I thought was to limit our ability to talk to the public with units
that had begun to be familiar to them when trying to put radiation in
perspective (with a dose or limit of 5mSv seeming much more forbidding than a
limit of 500 mr!) 

Regards, Jim