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Robert Hargraves's avatar

Food can be sterilized in its packaging using ionizing radiation. Exposures are limited to 1000 Gy, I think. I wondered where the food-borne bugs would fit on your Figure 2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_irradiation

https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/communication/food-irradiation.html

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Victualis's avatar

Interesting theory, sounds plausible and definitely more plausible than the radiation models that have been used to justify killing off nuclear power. A chart with memorable quantities contrasted with each other would be useful here. Something like low to normal, a threshold where damage becomes significant compared to the background damage from oxidative processes, and some examples of large dose events (6 hour flight, Chernobyl core containment crew for a day, Manhattan project criticality accidents, visiting Kerala for a week).

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