Re: UNSCEAR report: HEREDITARY EFFECTS OF RADIATION

[BLHamrick@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 03/15/2002 5:12:56 PM Pacific Standard Time, ograabe@UCDAVIS.EDU writes:



> A pertinent paper is Health Physics 82: 87-93 (2002). The background in
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> Ramsar, Iran, is a remarkable 260 mSv/year without observable cytogenetic
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> changes.


Wait.  26 rem per year.  Really?  That truly is remarkable.  Ooo!  I have the article downstairs.  Thanks for pointing that out.  That's 3 millirem per hour.  That is very interesting.  I have my "dinner" reading now.  Thank you.


Barbara L. Hamrick