Re: Anti-radiation article -Thoughts please!

[Bernard L Cohen <blc+@pitt.edu>]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Joseph Archer wrote:

> 1 in 287 fatal cancers per milirem over 70 years. I guess that means for a
> natural background of 360 mrem/year, everyone is going to die of cancer
> naturally and some of us will have to die twice.

	--This was per mSv, not per millirem which is 100 times smaller
dose.

> >
> > What is a SAFE DOSE of radiation?
> > The International Committee on Radiological Protection (ICRP) recommended
> > standard of 1
> > millisievert (1 mSv) annual maximum exposure for the public.
> > This translates, using ICRP's dose - response assumptions, to a risk
> > of 3.5 fatal cancers in 1000 people exposed annually over a lifetime of 70
> > years. This is a lifetime fatal cancer risk of 1 in 286.
> 
Bernard L. Cohen
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University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
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