Radiation Risk and Ethics

["S.M. Javad Mortazavi" <radioadaptive@angelfire.com>]

Dear Colleagues
  "Radiation Risk and Ethics" is the title of a new
informative article on the radiophobia and the health
effects of low-level ionizing radiation.
"However, the fear of small doses, such as those absorbed
from the Chernobyl fallout by the inhibitants of central and
western Europe, is about as justified as the fear that
an atmosphere temperature of 20C may be hazardous
because at 200C, one can easily get 3rd degree burns"
Source:
Jaworowski Z. Physics Today, September 1999.
Zbigniew Jaworowski is a professor at the central lab
for radiological protection, in Warsaw, Poland.


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