"How ``Safe'' Has Changed Over Time," NGP, Issue 2, Spring, 1993

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NUCLEAR GUARDIANSHIP FORUM, On The Responsible Care of Radioactive Materials,
Issue # 2, Spring 1993, p. 4.

How "Safe" Has Changed Over Time

International Recommendations for Worker Exposure to Radiation, 1934-1990

In the first five decades of the Nuclear Age, the international recommendations for acceptable levels of worker exposure to radiation have been revised downward a number of times. The dangers of exposure to low-level radiation have been historically underestimated.

Dr. John Gofman is among the growing number of specialists in the field today who assert:

THERE IS

NO SAFE LEVEL OF

RADIATION EXPOSURE

Further Recommended Reading:

What Is Factually Wrong with This Belief: "Harm from Low-Dose Radiation Is Just Hypothetical --- Not Proven", Gofman, 1995
Section 5: Disproof of Any Safe Dose or Dose-RateChapters, Chapters 18-21, Radiation-Induced Cancer from Low-Dose Exposure: An Independent Analysis, Gofman, 1990.
Gofman on the health effects of radiation: "There is no safe threshold", 1994
Part ONE, The Problem: Nuclear Radiation and its Biological Effects from No Immediate Danger, Prognosis for a Radioactive Earth, Bertell, 1986

Source of graph: International Commission on Radiological Protection; Caufield, as reported in Worldwatch Paper 106, Nuclear Waste: The Problem That Won't Go Away, by Nicholas Lenssen, 1992.
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