Breaking News: The Gordian Knot Group has published a little book called The Two Lies that Killed Nuclear Power.
a) Lifetime risk of cancer from any potentially hazardous assault should be 0.0001, says EPA MIR.
b) LNT says cancer risk is 0.01 per 100 mGy (per year)
c) NRC and EPA set public limits to 1 mGy per year.
d) Multiply, 70 year lifetime risk of cancer from 1 mGy/year would be 70 x 0.01 x 0.01 = 0.007
So LNT is too conservative by a factor of 70 to meet MIR?
I believe the EPA clean up standard is 0.15 mSv/y,
but that still results is an LNT MIR that is 10 times too high.
I don't know how EPA came up with the dose rate limit.
a) Lifetime risk of cancer from any potentially hazardous assault should be 0.0001, says EPA MIR.
b) LNT says cancer risk is 0.01 per 100 mGy (per year)
c) NRC and EPA set public limits to 1 mGy per year.
d) Multiply, 70 year lifetime risk of cancer from 1 mGy/year would be 70 x 0.01 x 0.01 = 0.007
So LNT is too conservative by a factor of 70 to meet MIR?
I believe the EPA clean up standard is 0.15 mSv/y,
but that still results is an LNT MIR that is 10 times too high.
I don't know how EPA came up with the dose rate limit.