Re: Threshold for determini

["Mike Bohan" <mike.bohan@yale.edu>]

        Reply to:   RE>>Threshold for deterministic effects

Hi all,

I thought 10 - 20 mSv, converted to the dusty old units, was 1-2 Rem!  Since
average background in the U.S. is 3 mSv (0.3 Rem) EDE, it seems to me a little
low for reliable detection of chromosomal aberrations.
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Date: 01/02/97 3:44 AM
To: Mike Bohan
From: radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
To the first question only: -
Effects (chromosome aberrations) are routinely being 
detected down to some 10 to 20 mSv (10-20 rem) doses.
Contact Alan.Edwards@nrpb.org.uk for information.


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