RE: Independent assessment of rad environmental monitoring

["Lavera, Ron" <Ron.Lavera@nypa.gov>]

I would suggest some caution in your selection process.  I remember a
recent anti-nuke symposium where a number of the academic and
institutional "experts" issued reports based on "studies" that relied on
cluster data and steered data analysis.  The result was a very biased
and misleading report that caused undue public apprehension.  That
effects of that type of report could take years to redress.

I don't mind hearing unfavorable information.  I just hate trying to
separate the valid data from the junk data.

...   mine and mine alone  ...

Ron LaVera
lavera.r@nypa.gov

-----Original Message-----
From: nolan Hertel [mailto:nolan.hertel@me.gatech.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 1999 7:32 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Re: Independent assessment of rad environmental monitoring


Although not qualified myself, university professors often meet the the
public's definition of independent.

At 04:19 PM 1/25/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Our Radiological Environmental Monitoring Program (REMP) at the
Millstone
>Nuclear Generating Station is being challenged by an outside group.
They
claim
>that the utility cannot be trusted to monitor itself.  We would like to
have an
>independent assessment of our program.  The person or organization
doing the
>assessment cannot be in bed with the nuclear industry.  Any suggestions
of
who
>that could be?
>
>Claude Flory
>Senior Scientist
>Northeast Utilities
>floryca@gwsmtp.nu.com 
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Nolan E. Hertel, PhD, PE
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Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Health Physics
G. W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
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