Re: Exempt vs. Non-licensed ?

[Ronald Morgan <rgmorgan@lanl.gov>]

Actually, I think I'd add two sigma to the "reference" values.  And I think
its a GREAT idea, hope your comment wrt reducing the issue to the absurd
wasn't intended to imply that the idea itself is absurd.  The absurd part is
that this idea hasn't a hope of being implemented.
ron 

At 05:59 PM 10/29/96 -0600, you wrote:
>OK Sandy,
>
>Here is my contribution to a flat Radioactive Material License.
>
>1. Anything with a specific activity equal to or less than standard (or
>reference)man can be buried anywhere with out restriction.
>
>2. Anything with a specific activity equal to or less than a standard (or
>reference ) banana can be sold as food. (or drink, or cosmetic, or body
>paint).
>
>3. Anything with a specific activity equal to or less than a standard (or
>reference) Northern temperate zone tree may be burned with out restriction.
>
>These limits of course apply only to the radioactivity present. After all we
>wouldn't want to sell anthrax toxin as food even though the plutonium <aka
>the most hazardous substance known to man> contaminant was within this limit.
>
>Anybody else wish to help with this reductio ad absurdum <sorry no italics>
>
>Regis A. Greenwood, C H P
>ragreen!@nwohio.com
>           OR
>ragreen1@aol.com
>
>The opinions, if any, expressed are solely my own. My employer seldom
>approves of me, let alone my opinions.
>
>
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