RE: Scary X-rays?!

["Heinmiller, Bruce" <heinmillerb@aecl.ca>]

No they're not.  A DDREF of 2 is applied.

Bruce Heinmiller CHP
heinmillerb@aecl.ca

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> From: 	Chris Alston[SMTP:alstonc@odrge.odr.georgetown.edu]
> Reply To: 	radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
> Sent: 	Wednesday, July 14, 1999 1:37 PM
> To: 	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: 	Re: Scary X-rays?!
> 
> The risk-estimating coefficients are, also, linearly extrapolated from
> very
> high doses/doserates to  low doses/doserates. Does anyone really believe
> that the risk for a population of 100,000 people, receiving 10,000,000
> person-rem (100 rem each), as a high doserate, is the same as that for a
> population of, say, 10,000,000 people receiving the same collective dose,
> at relatively low doserates? Let's not even open the question of hormesis.
> 
> chris a.
> alstonc@odrge.odr.georgetown.edu
> 
> 
> 
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