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The most important thing to retain from the recent three country study of nuclear workers is that it supports the no safe dose-linear no threshold model (LNT) for ionizing radiation. Increased radiation exposure is increased risk. It shows association between protracted very low dose exposure to ionising radiation and cancer. Although high dose rate exposures were presumed by many “to be more dangerous than low dose rate exposures, the risk per unit of radiation dose for cancer among radiation workers was similar to estimates derived from studies of Japanese atomic bomb survivors.” (Richardson et. al., BMJ, Oct 2015).

The radiation exposures over an entire career, in this INWORKS study, are generally very low cumulative doses, even compared to what is considered “acceptable” radiation exposures for the general public from nuclear facilities and nuclear waste. However, the researchers appear to false the results by choosing to use the arithmetic…