Re: personrem/personSievert

[jack bell <bellstar@erols.com>]

Zack Clayton wrote:

>  This is a discussion of a total (theoretical) exposure to a distributed population of usually undetermined size, (with the exception of things like plant outages).   There is usually no regard to a discrete individual dose and most of the rhetoric is in terms of possible dose, millions of exposures, etc.
>
> I propose we agree to call it what it really is -  theory-rem and  theory-Sieverts.  When we use that exposure construct no one individual has taken the whole dose so why espouse the fallacy that one has by referring to any pronoun?
>
> Just my thoughts while on break.
>
> Zack Clayton
> Ohio EPA - DERR
> email:  zack.clayton@epa.state.oh.us
> voice:  614-644-3066
> fax:        614-460-8249

Zack,

I agree.  The term "potential dose" has always implied to me that the dam was about to break and cause untold harm!

Jack Bell, bellstar@erols.com

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