Re: Article " Radiation Risk and Ethics"

[Jim Muckerheide <jmuckerheide@delphi.com>]

Group, I'm sorry. 
I missed the following links to Jaworowski's papers:

http://cnts.wpi.edu/RSH/Data_Docs/1-2/2/2/1222list.html
http://cnts.wpi.edu/RSH/Data_Docs/1-2/6/3/1/12631list.html
http://cnts.wpi.edu/RSH/Data_Docs/1-2/6/3/3/12633list.html

Regards, Jim Muckerheide
muckerheide@mediaone.net
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Jim Muckerheide wrote:
> 
> Group,
> 
> The subject paper is on the web:
> http://www.riskworld.com/Nreports/1999/jaworowski/NR99aa01.htm
> 
> More accurately: "Radiation Risk and the Lack of Ethics" :-)
> 
> Please forward to others  (that support nuclear technologies rather than
> defraud the public for cleanup $$ and other wasteful fear-mongering
> exercises that severely constrain nuclear technologies).
> 
> Note also Jaworowski's papers as applied to the primary exposed
> populations and biology at:
> http://cnts.wpi.edu/RSH/Data_Docs/1-2/1/4/1214list.html
> http://cnts.wpi.edu/RSH/Data_Docs/1-2/5/2/1/12521list.html
> http://cnts.wpi.edu/RSH/Data_Docs/1-2/6/2/1262list.html
> http://cnts.wpi.edu/RSH/Data_Docs/1-4/14list.html
> http://cnts.wpi.edu/RSH/Data_Docs/1-5/15list.html
> 
> and on costs and conclusions at:
> http://cnts.wpi.edu/RSH/Data_Docs/1-8/18list.html
> http://cnts.wpi.edu/RSH/Data_Docs/1-9/19list.html
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Regards, Jim Muckerheide
> Radiation, Science, and Health
> Center for Nuclear Technology and Society at WPI
> Mass. State Nuclear Engineer
> muckerheide@mediaone.net
> http://cnts.wpi.edu/rsh/
> ================================================
> 
> William Machell wrote:
> >
> > Note: just resent this to correct an address and correct a couple
> > typos. Don't seem to have correct addressess for Caciapouti and Gil
> > Brown. Jim, got your answer and will mail a copy.
> >
> >
> > Maybe many of you are up on this anyway, but there is a very
> > interesting article in the September  Physics Today   by Zbigniew
> > Jaworoski.  " The established worldwide
> >  practice of protecting people from radiation costs hundreds of
> > billions of dollars a year to implement and may well determine the
> > world's future energy system. But is it right?" It discusses how
> > politics got involved in establishing current practices, Why we have
> > radiophobia, real effects of nuclear whatevers, why they should dump
> > the no threshold, etc. He suggests that the curent population dose
> > threshold could be 10 times higher.
> >       He is a professor Poland's Central Lab for Radological
> > Protection and served on the UN Scientific Committee on Effects of
> > Atomic Radiation.
> >         If this is not available to you I would send a copy. Just send
> > an address.
> >
> >                                       Bill Machell
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