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It's all semantics, playing with different definitions of risk, safe, etc etc. Especially if any miniscule dose of radiation does increase the risk of cancer, w
by icegreentea 16y ago
It's all semantics, playing with different definitions of risk, safe, etc etc. Especially if any miniscule dose of radiation does increase the risk of cancer, what we deem 'safe' is not (and cannot sensibly be) 'no increase risk of cancer', but rather 'small enough risk of cancer'... which I believe is where 100milliSieverts comes from.
It's like saying that there's no such thing as 'safe driving' since the very act of driving (no matter how carefully) increases the chance of you dying through some drunkass T-boning you.