Showing posts with label collective dose. Show all posts
Showing posts with label collective dose. Show all posts
Saturday, April 30, 2016

Appendix Part 2

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3) Immunosurveillance systems are able to eliminate clones of transformed cells, as is shown by tumor cell transplants. The effectiveness of...
Sunday, April 24, 2016

International Recognition

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In May 2005, the French Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Medicine issued a unanimous  report that cut the legs from under both th...
Friday, April 22, 2016

Individual Action

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So you're interested in seeing an honest re-evaluation of the effects of low-level radiation. What to do? Of course, buying and distribu...
Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Risk Analysis and Others in the Nuclear Field

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The LNT theory and the concept of collective dose make it relatively straightforward for assessors to determine the risk of exposure to radi...
Thursday, April 14, 2016

Yes, You Can Be Too Careful

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Hundreds of billions of dollars are to be spent 'remediating' U.S. sites even though there is no scientific basis for claiming any h...
Sunday, April 10, 2016

Dirty Bombs

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We have been led to believe - on the basis of the LNT theory and collective dose - that terrorists could mount an effective attack by the us...
Friday, March 25, 2016

What's Cookin' in Those Reactors

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The use of thorium in CANDU type reactors would give earthlings sufficient energy to provide for the next seven ice ages. - Edward Teller [F...
Sunday, January 3, 2016

Time Out for a Measurement

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Why, in a book about hormesis  are we branching off into areas of Linear No-Threshold   theory  and collective dose ? Because the LNT and co...
Saturday, January 2, 2016

Collective Dose

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You are not going to believe a concept that has guided our radiation-protection formulators for the past forty or fifty years. But, as my he...

Falling for the Linear No-Threshold (LNT) Theory

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Sadly, and ironically, the change in our attitudes toward radiation is due to an assumption - an assumption originally made to protect us fr...