NUCLEAR GUARDIANSHIP FORUM, On The Responsible Care of Radioactive Materials
Issue # 2, Spring 1993, p. 4.
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                      How "Safe" Has Changed Over Time

[IMG: International Recommendations for Worker Exposure to Radiation, 1934-1990]

In the first five decades of the Nuclear Age, the international
recommendations for acceptable levels of worker exposure to radiation have
been revised downward a number of times. The dangers of exposure to
low-level radiation have been historically underestimated.

Dr. John Gofman is among the growing number of specialists in the field
today who assert:

                                  THERE IS

                              NO SAFE LEVEL OF

                             RADIATION EXPOSURE

     Further Recommended Reading:

        * What Is Factually Wrong with This Belief: "Harm from Low-Dose
          Radiation Is Just Hypothetical --- Not Proven", Gofman, 1995
        * Section 5: Disproof of Any Safe Dose or Dose-RateChapters,
          Chapters 18-21, Radiation-Induced Cancer from Low-Dose
          Exposure: An Independent Analysis, Gofman, 1990.
        * Gofman on the health effects of radiation: "There is no safe
          threshold", 1994
        * Part ONE, The Problem:   Nuclear Radiation and its Biological
          Effects from No Immediate Danger, Prognosis for a Radioactive
          Earth, Bertell, 1986

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     Source of graph: International Commission on Radiological
     Protection; Caufield, as reported in Worldwatch Paper 106, Nuclear
     Waste: The Problem That Won't Go Away, by Nicholas Lenssen, 1992.

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