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Re: Paduca Pu
This was the 1970's. The AEC-ERDA-DOE Manuals were in place. We had the dose
limits and monitoring requirements. If the facility management had a culture
which condoned not following established requirements, that was wrong, it always
has been, and it always will be. Quibbling about the exact dose is equally
futile.
I fail to understand why hp's are so eager to play the role of victim. We
should acknowledge and correct our mistakes, and go on. This dialogue is taking
on the tones that I might try with traffic police if I were caught running a red
light. "There wasn't any accident, so I don't deserve a ticket." I doubt that
this would work, and neither will your arguments work with the public.
The opinions expressed are strictly mine.
It's not about dose, it's about trust.
Bill Lipton
liptonw@dteenergy.com
"Potter, Charles" wrote:
> These days we frequently find ourselves judging actions of 20-50 years ago
> with today's morality. This pops up often in the issues of informed consent
> for treatments given 40-50 years ago when the idea of informed consent was
> in its infancy. What is great for the accusers in this kind of case is that
> their accusations get such good press that we are put in the position of
> being guilty in the media until proven innocent.
>
> Gus
>
> History will remember the inhabitants of this century as the people who went
> from Kitty Hawk to the moon in 66 years, only to languish for the next 30 in
> low Earth orbit. At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent
> failure of nerve. -- Buzz Aldrin
>
> C. A. Gus Potter
> Sandia National Laboratories
> Albuquerque, New Mexico
> (505) 844-2750
> capotte@sandia.gov
>
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