Re: EPA-NRC Standards

[avest@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Albert Lee Vest)]

>     It appears there was a meeting between the EPA and the NRC on November 
>     6, 1995 for the purpose of achieving harmony between federal standards 
>     ...attempt to obtain a copy of this later. The bottom line:
>     
>...  2. NRC believes that a lifetime risk of [4 in 1,000] (equivalent to    
>        the 100 mrem/year annual dose standard) is an appropriate risk      
>        ceiling. EPA believes that lifetime risks higher than [1 in 10,000] 
>        are unacceptable.
>     
>...  From the Interagency Steering Committee on Radiation Standards 
>     (ISCORS) ... the NRC's "seemingly less stringent standards" achieve an 
>     equivalent level of protection because the NRC uses very conservative 
>     modeling.

That is, a linear, no-threshold dose-response model, right?  EPA appears to
be using a different model - one I'd be interested in learning about.

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