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I can't find any solid supporting sources that provide any evidence that there exists a positively safe dosage, but even the linear-no-threshold models suggest
by emn13 5y ago
I can't find any solid supporting sources that provide any evidence that there exists a positively safe dosage, but even the linear-no-threshold models suggest the effects of low dosages are small enough to be hard to measure; i.e. which model is correct is practically irrelevant for low enough (e.g. 1-10 mSv?) dosages.
- aidenn0 5y agoPresumably there is some level of radiation at which if 100 million people were exposed to for 20 years, we would see measurable excess deaths with the linear no-threshold model, but not with other models. In particular the linear model treats chronic exposure as all the same; X amount for a week is the same as X/52 for a year.
- emn13 5y agoYeah, the linearity in the dose seems more plausible than the linearity in time; and I don't understand why the two dimensions necessarily would be intrinsically linked.