"A-Bomb Fallout"

[JMUCKERHEIDE@delphi.com]

Otto, Group,

Does anyone have the paper presented at the DOE 50th anniversary conference?

Note that Time also states that 'the gov't is paying close attention' because
it's setting rules about cleanup and decommissioning standards and "the way
the line is drawn will cost, or save, $10s billions." Again, the screwdriver
in the LNT structure is finding rotten wood. 

Congratulate Time on an accurate report if it's accurate based on the
presentation, but include your own data on high radium (and Sr and Pu) doses
over a lifetime. Note the hundreds of other studies that contradict the LNT,
with the note that there's not one substantial study that honestly addresses
the science that supports the LNT (and those that are argued to do so
specifically misrepresent the data). 

Regards, Jim Muckerheide
jmuckerheide@delphi.com
Radiation, Science, and Health, Inc.

> June 20, 1997
> 
> Dear RadSafers:
> 
> On page 50 of the June 23, 1997, issue of TIME magazine is an interesting
> report entitled "A-Bomb Fallout" concerning the Washington, DC, meeting last
> week commemorating the 50th Anniversary of ABCC and RERF studies of the
> Japanese A-bomb survivors. The article by Dick Thompson contrasts the LNT
> model with the fact that the low-dose survivors are showing lower
> solid-tumor cancer incidence than Japanese people who where not living in
> Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
> 
> The anti-nuclear groups will bombard TIME with negative letters about this
> report. It behooves each of us to write a letter of congratulations to TIME.
> This time they got it right! 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> OTTO