(Jeffrey Mahn) USofA - Radiation risk presentation
25.Feb.2015
John Shanahan
Jeffrey Mahn, nuclear engineer: This presentation addresses Ionizing Radiation Risk - Risk Issues are Emotional. Solutions are Technical. Decisions are Political.
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- LNT
- Linear NoThreshold Hypothesis
- low dose radiation
- risk definition
- perception
- chance of dying
- loss of life expectancy
- hazard
- dose
- dose rate
- acute dose
- chronic dose
- BEIR
- Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation
- ICRP
- International Commission on Radiological Protection
- UNSCEAR
- United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation
- Collective Dose
- Chernobyl
- radiation phobia
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