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Title: Powerful Shot Against Believers In "No Safe Dose" Of Radiation
Post by: Ksheed on Jun 20, 2016, 02:16

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rodadams/2016/06/19/powerful-shot-against-believers-in-no-safe-dose-of-radiation/#59c6ad3d2170 (http://www.forbes.com/sites/rodadams/2016/06/19/powerful-shot-against-believers-in-no-safe-dose-of-radiation/#59c6ad3d2170)

Title: Re: Powerful Shot Against Believers In "No Safe Dose" Of Radiation
Post by: Marlin on Jun 20, 2016, 03:15

Quote from: ksheed12 on Jun 20, 2016, 02:16

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rodadams/2016/06/19/powerful-shot-against-believers-in-no-safe-dose-of-radiation/#59c6ad3d2170 (http://www.forbes.com/sites/rodadams/2016/06/19/powerful-shot-against-believers-in-no-safe-dose-of-radiation/#59c6ad3d2170)

The Health Physics Society has accepted this for a while  ". . . the Health Physics Society recommends against quantitative estimation of health risks below an individual dose of 50 mSv in one year or a lifetime dose of 100 mSv above that received from natural sources.". There has not been a lot of movement in regulations to reflect this, the EPA and NRC still use the LNT as a conservative model to estimate the relationship of dose to effect. What would happen to cost of operation if it was adopted?

http://hps.org/documents/risk_ps010-2.pdf