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Re: Comments on the West Wing episode



Without LNT, what is the relevance of collective dose (p-Sv)? How do you assess significance? What is the collective dose due to natural BG for the x billion people on the planet? Is that "significant"? If you don't believe in LNT, you would only count doses above threshold.
 
Kai
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...The analysis, which, like any prospective analysis, includes a number of  conservative estimates, does project a total dose (including inhalation, inhalation from resuspension, and ingestion of plants that have taken up deposited material) that is of the order of 1000 person-rems, if the accident were in a densely populated area.  For LNT-believers, this would translate to  0.55 latent cancer fatalities in that population.  I myself prefer just to look at collective dose, and say that it is significant. ...