[ RadSafe ] Re: Some Australian Articles

[Jim Hoerner]

>From: Stabin, Michael <michael.g.stabin at Vanderbilt.Edu>

>The annual effective dose from K-40 in the body
>is around 16 mrem for adults and 18 mrem for children, according to the
>UNSCEAR 1993 report, accounting for an annual population dose of 4.6 x
>10^6 person-rem*, assuming a population of 270 x 10^6 people.

>(*LNT'ers care to tell us how many deaths by cancer we can expect each
>year from this?)

[Answer: about 2300 annually, using 0.05 cancer fatalities per Sievert. I 
don't know if this is more or less than the number of pretzel chokings.  
What do I win?- JH]

My reply to Ivor's original query is at 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Know_Nukes/message/12765 .

Regards,
Jim


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