RE: European Communities and Radiation Exposure of Flight Crews

["Lantz, Michael W(Z59078)" <MLANTZ@apsc.com>]

It seems to be a simple case of attempting to satisfy a Worker's need 
to know about their individual doses during their occupational hours: 
i.e., dosimetry.   Whether it is low dose or high dose, it is dose 
that flight crews would like to be aware on an individual basis.  No 
one has suggested any incredible cost issues such as ALARA for flight 
crews; like flying at lower altitudes, or shorter schedules and/or 
limits to flight time, or shielding cockpits!!

So why the attack on people who would simply be interested in 
measuring doses cheaply, especially in the light of old studies that 
showed that they were incurring positive exposure but "less than 500 
mrem per year"?

Mike Lantz
Sr. Health Physicist
Radiological Engineering Section
Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station
  (602) 393-5200
  e-mail: mlantz@apsc.com
  Unless otherwise noted, all opinions are mine alone.

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From: 	Al Tschaeche[SMTP:antatnsu@pacbell.net]
Sent: 	Friday, August 22, 1997 12:35 PM
To: 	Multiple recipients of list
Subject: 	Re: European Communities and Radiation Exposure of Flight 
Crews

Wim Passchier wrote:
>
> As I mentioned in an earlier mail, it is my perception that the 
exposure of
> flight crews will become a matter of discussion in the coming years. 

Good grief, I hope not!  Why do humans insist on wasting money and 
time
on radiation exposure control when there are no demonstrated effects
from low doses of ionizing radiation?  And, there are some 
demonstrated
beneficial effects from such radiation.  I do hope that the more
rational of our European radsafers can head off at the pass any 
attempt
to regulate, measure or control exposure to natural radiation, even 
if
it is "enhanced" by human activies.  Please, please, look at all the
data about effects of low doses before you decide that low doses pose
any harm at all.

 The exposure to 'natural'
> radiation will be a subject of discussion in the European Union in 
the
> years to come, not only with respect to flight personnel.

Same comment as above.  Let's spend our time and money solving real
problems with real, measurable harmful effects instead of tilting a 
the
windmill of low doses of radiation.

Al Tschaeche antatnsu@pacbell.net