Re[2]: Low Doses and LNT

[Randall_F_Brich@RL.gov]

      Tsurikov Nick <ntsuriko@rgc.com.au>wrote, in part: 
>If the public impression that "there is no safe level of radiation" will   
>not be changed (at least to the point of accepting some level of exposure  
>which MAYBE will decrease some life expectancies by a couple of days, but 
>will benefit all society) we will face more and more ridiculous   
>situations.

That appears to be an accurate statement.

>I totally agree that SILENCE IS KILLING US.
>The proposal (probably crazy - they say all Russians are crazy), but   
>nevertheless:
>Let's try to educate anti-nuclear special interest groups first.  Let's   
>have a Joint Conference of, say, Radiation Protection or Health Physics   
>Society and guys like Greenpeace or Friends of the Earth.  Let's   
>broadcast it like presidential candidates' debates, let's invite all the   
>media.  Some sort of open forum.  Any questions asked and answered.  For   
>example, what we are going to do when coal,oil and gas will run out?  And  
> let's see what happens....
     
     Regarding the above proposed action, Carl Sagan, in his second to last 
     book, "DEMON HAUNTED WORLD: SCIENCE AS A CANDLE IN THE DARK" outlines 
     the difficulties science faces when dealing with irrational entities.
     
     Sagan, on p. 255, leads with: "The claim is also sometimes made that 
     science is as arbitrary or irrational as all other claims to 
     knowledge; or that reason itself is an illusion." He then inserts the 
     following quote:
     
     "Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they 
     argue against reason with or without reason; if with reason, then they 
     establish the principle that they are laboring to dethrone: but if 
     they argue without reason (which, in order to be consistent with 
     themselves they must do), they are out of reach of rational 
     conviction, nor do they deserve a rational argument." -- Ethan Allen 
     just after their (the Green Mountain Boys) capture of Fort 
     Ticonderoga.
     
     Sagan also describes a 'baloney detection kit' which is quite useful 
around this part of the country; perhaps a future post will include the kit's 
salient ideals.


>Kind Regards
>Nick Tsurikov
>Radiation Safety Officer - RGC Mineral Sands Limited, Western Australia P.O. 
>Box 47
>Eneabba, WA 6518, Australia
>ph: 61+ 08 9956 9531
>fax: 61+ 08 9956 9597
>ntsuriko@rgc.com.au

Sincerely,
Randy Brich, USDOE, Richland, WA
509-372-4966
e-mail: randall_f_brich@rl.gov
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