Re: Nuclear Power and Peanut Butter

[muckerheide@highway1.com (James Muckerheide)]

Alden Tschaeche wrote:
> 
> Ron Amoling wrote:
> 
> >
> > gee...I can't imagine why a lay person doesn't understand the risk
> > (if any) from exposure to radiation released from a nuke plant, an
> > xray tube, etc.....We can't even agree!
> 
> That's why we need an ANSI standard on permissible dose levels.  A
> standard is a written agreement.  The system we have  to set radiation
> protection standards is broke!  There's no input from anyone but the
> NCRP!  They are not God, although sometimes I think they think they
> are.  ANSI is the only place where ALL interested parties can
> participate.  I tried for years to get ANSI N-13 to write such a
> standard.  But, the N-13 members, many of them from the federal
> government, wouldn't because they all kowtowed to the NCRP.  I even got
> the AAHP to request in writing, N-13 to write such a standard.  No
> luck.  Maybe if a number of radsafers pressed N-13 and the HPS Standards
> Committee to write such a standard, it would have some positive result.
> Al Tschaeche xat@inel.gov (for one more day)

Can we anticipate an Al Tschaeche "retirement mission"?  :-)

I'll miss your contributions, even if only 2 weeks!

Thanks.

Regards, Jim Muckerheide
jmuckerheide@delphi.com