"Beware Low-Level Radiation"

["Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe@ucdavis.edu>]

May 7, 1997
Washington, DC

"Beware Low-Level Radiation" is the heading of two letters on page A24 of
today's Washington Post newspaper. The first letter from Marvin Resnikoff is
a well-stated anti-nuclear analysis that is based almost exclusively on the
work of RERF and ICRP. It directly criticizes HPS position paper on LNT. The
author is a career anti-nuclear physicist whose book "Living With Landfills"
was described as "biased" in an NCRP report. The second letter is by Arlie
Schardt, who describes himself as the executive director of a nonprofit
environmental organization.

These two letter deserve careful evaluation by anyone involved in the LNT
controversy.

Otto
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		Prof. Otto G. Raabe, Ph.D., CHP
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