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100 mSv per year comment here: http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=NRC-2015-0057

Commenter Pia Jensen points out that Carol S. Marcus, Ph.D., M.D., UCLA states: “The costs of complying with these LNT-based regulations are enormous.”

This raises the question of costs to whom? Who benefits? Who pays in each instance What are the costs of one extra cancer for the entire population? Who will pay for that? https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2015/10/30/usnrc-value-of-death-update-all-tricks-no-value-of-life-no-medical-care-or-caregiver-costs/

Richardson et. al.’s (Oct. 2015) study of nuclear workers in the US, UK, France, which came out after Pia Jensen’s comment (below) was submitted, leads to an estimate of approximately 100 additional cancers per 100 people after only 10 years of 100 mSv per year exposure. (see links below comment). BEIR VII (2005) estimates for 100 mSv are an average of 80 per 100 extra cancers, over a life time, and 100 per 100 for women, well actually 101,900 per 100,000 women (see BEIR p…