Re: ICRP/NCRP Risk Factor Use

[rkathren@tricity.wsu.edu (Ron L. Kathren)]

Andy et al.

You might want to check NCRP 121 for a discussion of collective dose caveats
and limitations.

Ron Kathren
rkathren@tricity.WSU.edu

  At 03:57 PM 10/26/98 -0600, Andrew Karam wrote:
>I realize that many organizations use collective dose and risk, but in some
>cases, this use seems to not make practical sense.  For example, we all
>agree that dropping a 1000 pound rock on someone will crush them.  Does
>this mean that dropping two 500 pound rocks on two people will only kill
>one of them?  Or that throwing 16,000 one-ounce rocks at 16,000 different
>people will crush one of them?  To me, neither of these scenarios make
>sense.  Similarly, I think that determining risk based on collective dose
>does not always make sense.
>
>My apologies if this repeats earlier posts - I was away last week and did
>not follow earlier postings on this thread.
>
>Andy
>
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