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"Low Level Revision 1 1.2.6 1.2.6.2 |
Professor Emeritus, and Member of the UN
Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR), of the Central
Laboratory for Radiological Protection, Dr. Zbigniew Jaworowski states (1995a) that: "The
question arises: why governments of various countries do not relocate populations living
in areas where lifetime dose of natural radiation is higher than 350 mSv. For example, why
are people not evacuated from Norway where all country average lifetime dose is 365 mSv
(Henriksen 1988), or from high background regions in India with a lifetime dose of >
2000 mSv (Sunta 1990) and in Iran with lifetime dose of > 3000 mSv (Sohrabi 1990)?
Perhaps in Iran, for example, the government considered not to follow the ICRP guidelines
when it considered the fact that in a house in the city of Ramsar several generations were
receiving average individual lifetime doses of natural radiation of 17,000 mSv (240 times
more than the current ICRP limit for exposure of members of the public to natural sources
of radiation). Yet these individuals show no increased incidence of any disease, and some
of them lived to 110 years of age (Sohrabi 1990)." |
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