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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. ...
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