Re: Fear of Radiation

[JMUCKERHEIDE@delphi.com]

Hi Dave,

Though this is a rhetorical question, as you know, polling shows that NCRP's
principle, that "any amount of radiation...", directly supports regulators and 
programs for public support to spend more $$ on "rad protection"; and the
foundation of the effective attack that "a LLW site permit is a license to
kill", hence support to spend $$10s/100s billions for no/negative public
health benefit (to whose profit?)  to the loss of nuclear technologies and
associated further negative public cost.  Sinclair et al aggressively attacked 
the NRC proposed BRC policy at 10 mrem/yr to maintain the "policy". 

Thanks, Dave.

Regards, Jim Muckerheide
jmuckerheide@delphi.com
Radiation, Science, and Health
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> I am not interested in long, speculative constructions or anecdotes, just
> direct, impirical evidence that public fear is caused by a mathematical model.
> 
> In the present case, the model of biological response is irrelevent, since
> there is no absorbed dose to respond to.
> 
> Regards,
> Dave Scherer
> scherer@uiuc.edu