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Can you really just look at the cumulative amount of radiation? Does the intensity not matter? If you compressed those 4 days' worth of exposure into, say, 1 se
by dataflow 4y ago
Can you really just look at the cumulative amount of radiation? Does the intensity not matter? If you compressed those 4 days' worth of exposure into, say, 1 second, would that not have any different effect?
- pinkmuffinere 4y agoThat's a great point. I have no idea, and now I'm also curious. Not quite curious enough to google it though haha
- gwillen 4y agoIt is a great question, the answer is nobody really knows for sure.
- TheSpiceIsLife 4y agoWhat you both probably want to read about are the following two: The predominant wisdom is the linear no threshold model - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_no-threshold_model https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_no-threshold_model and the counter argument, the radiation hormesis hypothesis - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis
- pinkmuffinere 4y agoThanks for linking these, I'm surprised by the level of uncertainty and complexity here -- it's really interesting.