[NukeNet] "PLANNED DEATHS" By Nuclear Industry-Court Testimony By Dr John Gofman

[Bill Smirnow]

    http://www.geocities.com/mothersalert/chernobyl.html
 ALARA stands for "As Low As Reasonably Achievable".  It's definition 
 is in
 part 20 of the U.S. code of Federal Regulation of the U. S. NRC for 
 exposure
 to radiation.  All ALARA means is that, depending on the amount of  
 money
 that any nuclear industry wishes to spend on protection of the 
 environment
 and people, and depending on available technology, that is what they 
can
 use!  So if you say, as a nuclear producer, "I only intend to spend 
 $10 on
 keeping emissions as low as reasonably achievable, and that's all 
 the
 technology that is available" its OKAY!
 
 Dr. John W. Gofman[http://www.ratical.org]  has stated in front of 
 federal
 judges in U.S. Federal courts that this constitutes "planned 
 deaths":
 
 Question by the court:
 "What does ALARA..."
 
 Answer:
 "It permits deaths."
 
 Question:
 "Permits human deaths?"
 
 Answer:
 "Yes, because ALARA does not say -- see, the only way you could 
 avoid deaths
 from the nuclear fuel cycle is to have zero releases.  ALARA says 
 keep the
 releases as low as you can reasonably achieve with the economics 
 that you
 want to spend on it, and the equipment that you have available and  
 so
 forth.  So it is a planned emission of radioactivity, and that in 
 effect
 means planned deaths." -- Dr. John Gofman, in conversation with the 
 court,
 October 2nd, 1978, Jeannine Honicker versus the United States 
 Nuclear
 Regulatory Commission in Federal Court, Nashville, Tennessee, 
 seeking an
 injunction to shut down the nuclear fuel cycle.
 
 The judge found out that he had no jurisdiction and that it had to 
 go
 instead in front of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission/NRC judges.  
 The
 petition was denied.  (It can be found in "Shut Down:  Nuclear Power 
 on
 Trial: Experts Testify in Federal Court"  ISBN 0-913990-21-3, 
 published in
 1979 in the U. S. by The Book Publishing Company, 156 Drakes Lane,
 Summertown, Tennessee, 38483.)