RADIOPHOBIA: A SERIOUS BUT CURABLE MENTAL DISORDER

摘要

The current consensus of (almost) all radiation protection and radiation biology experts may be summarized as follows: 1. For economical (cost/benefit), ethical and political (e.g. nuclear energy acceptance) reasons, low dose effects are of utmost interest. 2. Radiobio logical and epidemic logical evidence demonstrates that the LNT hypothesis and collective dose concept are invalid for low and very low doses, but perhaps still of limited administrative value. In particular the "collective dose" concept frequently produces, by multiplication of very small doses with large populations, obviously absurd results. 3. The RBE of high-LET (alpha, neutron) radiation should be reduced from 20 to a more realistic value around 5-10. 4. Current population limits of 1 mSv/y (individuals) and ～ 0.01 mSv/y (large groups) are, considering research results, e.g. effects of natural background fluctuations, much too low and should be revised.