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Thanks Jack, for this insightful summary.

You are highlighting bone-cancer-incident rates vs cumulative dose. Assuming an evenly distributed dose rate over 10 years is a good back-of-the-envelope assumption, and probably nothing better can be estimated today.

Where do you have the bone-cancer-incident rates from?

I always thought that tongue and lip cancer was the main problem with the dial painters?

Do you have such data?

What about other types of cancer, or are there any mortality rates known that could be used?

Painting dial faces was continued over many decades, probably till the end of the 50ies or even into the 60ies in some places. There may be more and more recent data available.

I am afraid that focusing on just one cancer type may not be enough to make a conclusive statement that would be accepted by all.

Continue your good work, and I am still standing that a) SNT is way better than LNT by orders of magnitude, but b) still not good enough.

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