A straw poll on LNT

["James Mallon" <JMALLO@sandia.gov>]

OK radsafers

  We have seen alot of dialog about LNT for the past month and it has 
run the gamut from intelligent discourse to bad analogies.  Since radsafers
are all current with this topic we thought it would be interesting to 
conduct a poll.  We wrote the questions with the help of our co-workers
and hope that they are simple enough to avoid confusion.

To minimize the clutter on RADSAFE and avoid the wrath of Melissa,
PLEASE SEND YOUR ANSWERS TO US DIRECTLY!!

Our email addresses are: jmallo@sandia.gov
        or               capotte@sandia.gov   

Any answers posted to RADSAFE will NOT be incorporated.  We will post the
results of the poll to radsafe in about a week.  If  you have suggestions
for followup questions, please send them to us directly.

1. How familiar are you with research/documents that address LNT?
        a.)Very familiar with the basic research and the BEIR/ICRP/NCRP
        b.)Familiar with BEIR/ICRP/NCRP
        c.)Followed the recent articles in the HPS Newsletter and RADSAFE
        d.)Unfamiliar(Gut Reaction)

2. How strongly do you support the LNT?
        a.) I BELIEVE!
        b.) Support it as a good model for the data
        c.) The data is inconclusive, and LNT is reasonable/conservative
        d.) A new,less conservative model needs to be developed
        e.) LNT should be tossed immediately!

3. Occupational doses less than __x_ do not warrent any expeditures to reduce
        a.) x = 100mrem
        b.) x = 500mrem
        c.) x = 1 rem
        d.) x = 5 rem

4. Occupational doses less than __x__ do not need to be quantified
        a.) x = 0.1 mrem
        b.) x = 1.0 mrem
        c.) x = 10 mrem
        d.) x = 100 mrem  


Thanks for participating!

Jamie Mallon
Gus Potter