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Re: RADIATION SAFETY

To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Re: RADIATION SAFETY
From: Bernard L Cohen <blc+@pitt.edu>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 12:57:14 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <s43b6a60.074@RT-MAIL2.RTPTOK.EPA.GOV>


On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, CHARLES BLUE wrote:

> >  I read a paper in Health Physics (Vol 72 No 1) entitled: "Healthful 
> >Radiation".In this paper I found a sentence that was very questionable
> >for me:
> >" Any trained person working with radiation will agree that it is safer
> >to work for eight to ten hours per day with radiation than to drive to
> >and from work"
> >I want to know your ideas.

	--According to linear-no threshold theory, 1 mrem of radiation
dose causes the same reduction in life expectancy as 20 miles of average
driving.

References:
- RADIATION SAFETY
  - From: CHARLES BLUE <BLUE.CHARLES@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV>

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