Pollution and People Risks of low - level radiation - the evidence of epidemiology DAPHNE
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The paradox of ionising radiation is that we probably know more about it than about any other environmental agent yet are still uncertain of the total extent of its risks at low levelsindeed, out of the welter of data support can easily be found for opposing points of view. The main worry stems from the belief that for most long-term effects there is no threshold below which radiation is completely safe.' 2 The so-called nonstochastic effects such as haematological damage and damage to skin and lens, which depend on cell killing, will be found in
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