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NUCLEAR GUARDIANSHIP FORUM, On The Responsible Care of Radioactive Materials,
Issue # 2, Spring 1993, p. 4.

How "Safe" Has Changed Over Time



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:


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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