RE: Just what is safe -Reply

["Heinmiller, Bruce" <heinmillerb@aecl.ca>]

What's the source claiming an average annual background dose rate for Iran
of 4 rem/y?  Is this a meaningful average? That is, is it a
total-population-weighted estimate of the average?

Bruce Heinmiller
heinmillerb@aecl.ca

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> From: 	Michael S Ford[SMTP:MFORD@pantex.com]
> Reply To: 	radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
> Sent: 	Thursday, February 11, 1999 2:36 PM
> To: 	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: 	RE: Just what is safe -Reply
> 
> As for the higher annual doses you noted... consider the annual
> background levels in the countries below:
> 
> Norway, approx. 0.49 rem/yr  (70 yrs =  34 rem lifetime)
> 
> Some regions in India 2.7 rem/yr (190 rem lifetime)
> 
> Iran country average of 4 rem/yr (280 rem lifetime)
> 
> A house in Ramsar, Iran - 23 rem/yr - occupants have no elevated
> disease rates and some have lived to 110 yrs (1610 rem lifetime).
> 
> How is it possible that humans have survived through the millennia
> only to be snuffed out of existence by the LNTH?  Is the EPA or NRC
> planning to evacuate these countries?  Wouldn't it seem silly to limit
> occupational exposures to 1 rem annual in Iran when they're getting
> 4 rem from background?
> 
> (rhetorical questions all)
> v/r
> Michael
> mford@pantex.com
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