Re: W. on the Environment

[John D. Giorgis]

At 09:56 PM 5/21/01 +0200 J. van Baardwijk wrote:
>Of course I'm serious. After all, you claim that the radiation risk from me 
>is greater than the radiation risk from nuclear power. If the radiation 
>risk from nuclear power is so much less, then why are the safety measures 
>so extremely more strict? Logic dictates that higher risk requires more 
>safety measures, not less.

Jeroen, I think that Dan's point is that *because* of the strict safety
regulations in place at nuclear plants, there is now greater exposure to a
given individual from another individual, than from a nuclear plant.

JDG
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