Re: Low Doses?Thanks Sandy

[Muckerheide <muckerheide@mediaone.net>]

Hi Sandy,

Setting aside the: "who's 'we', kemo sabe" :-)  what are the doses to the
military presence in the desert? What is the dose one could hardly call 'low'? :-)

Thanks.

Regards, Jim Muckerheide
jmuckerheide@delphi.com
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> > I too am concerned about our credibility when we start calling
> 100krad "low"
> > after trying to convince the public that a few millirem is "really
> low".
> 
> Ted, this isn't the only case where we have shot ourselves in the
> foot. If you recall the rhetoric regarding the doses received from
> the military presence in the desert during the 50's nuclear testing
> was also classified as "low exposure", during the calls for
> investigation of cancers and other illnesses affecting those
> personnel. One could hardly call the doses received by these
> individuals as "low dose" ... If they were, it would give a whole new
> meaning to BRC!!!
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