Re[2]: linear hypothesis

[sandy_perle@email.fpl.com]

     Ummm... If the background dose has been significantly higher in the 
     past, then maybe THIS is the proof that we needed to validate the 
     recent comments that the many decisions seen lately, whether they be 
     in a "jury verdict" or in politics, is reason enough to increase 
     federal programs, not reduce Hr eliminate them, for there are many who 
     would benefit from a "Mental health Poverty Program" !!!   ;}
     
     
     Sandy Perle
     Supervisor Health Physics
     Florida Power and Light Company
     Nuclear Division
     
     (407) 694-4219 Office
     (407) 694-3706 Fax
     
     sandy_perle@email.fpl.com


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Subject: Re: linear hypothesis
Author:  radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu at Internet-Mail
Date:    10/23/95 10:07 AM



I meant 5 REM not 5 mrem. Remember, the human experience is that the
background dose rate has been decreasing for as long as humans have been
a species. The dose rates millions of years ago were significantly
higher than they are now because, in millions of years, at least some of
the natually occurring radioactive material existing then has decayed to
what we see now. And who knows what changes in the cosmic ray exposure
rate have taken place in the past. By-the-by, is there any way to
measure the cosmic ray dose change as a function of time in the past??
Any one out there have any data?

  So, I think humans can tolerate a significant annual dose, otherwise
we'd all be dead by now. Al.