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).
Thanks.
Regards, Jim Muckerheide
Radiation, Science, and Health
Center for Nuclear Technology and Society at WPI
Mass. State Nuclear Engineer
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http://cnts.wpi.edu/rsh/
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ERIC GOLDIN wrote:
>
> The below-mentioned article on "Radiation Risk and Ethics" looks
> interesting and I'll try to get a copy. However, I believe that
> some people have a fear of radiation (for whatever reason)
> similar to fear of heights, flying, open spaces, etc. and that
> fear is not going to be dispelled by education or establishment
> science. Does anyone out there (and this may not be the right
> forum) have any insight or papers on the genesis of radiophobia?
> I think it is a psychological manifestation that is not going to
> go away, and is not necessarily driven by activists who use fear
> of radiation for other purposes. In other words, no matter what
> research tells us about the efficiency of DNA repair and the
> statistics of low-dose epidemiology, some folks are never going
> to accept human-imposed radiation. Any thoughts?
>
> Eric Goldin
> <[log in to unmask]>
>
> Dear Colleagues
> "Radiation Risk and Ethics" is the title of a new
> informative article on the radiophobia and the health
> effects of low-level ionizing radiation.
> "However, the fear of small doses, such as those absorbed
> from the Chernobyl fallout by the inhibitants of central and
> western Europe, is about as justified as the fear that
> an atmosphere temperature of 20C may be hazardous
> because at 200C, one can easily get 3rd degree burns"
> Source:
> Jaworowski Z. Physics Today, September 1999.
> Zbigniew Jaworowski is a professor at the central lab
> for radiological protection, in Warsaw, Poland.
>
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