Re: S.Korea Launches Probe Into Nuclear Accident

[Michael McNaughton <mcnaught@lanl.gov>]

The LD50/60 is normally quoted in Gy, not Sv.

Assuming Hisashi Ouchi received 1.7 SV, and assuming a neutron quality
factor of 10, one might guesstimate this is about 0.15 Gy gamma and 0.15 Gy
neutron. Would you expect this to be a fatal dose?

At 09:44 AM 10/6/99 -0500, you wrote:
>It is unfortunate when even we in the nuclear industry confuse dose 
>limits from a regulatory perspective with what is considered to be 
>"safe". And how does one define safe anyway? This article refers to 
>the 600 rem as being a fatal dose. Yet we have 2 Japanese workers 
>still alive, yet very ill, receiving doses approaching 1700 rem, or 
>higher. Statements such as quoted in this article, and in others from 
>our profession only do harm. These statements do not take into 
>account medical intervention, which significantly increases an 
>individual's chances of surviving extremely high doses.

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