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re several hundreds of times lower than the permitted doses.
Sv (Sievert) is the equivalent unit of dosage which weighs
up
the effects
produced by all sorts of
radioactive
rays on
living organisms.
1,000 mSv (millisievert) = 1 Sv.
1 **
0.01
Sv.
RISK OF CANCER?
1 cigarette = 0.05 mSv
The likelihood of contracting cancer from
cigarette is eight in ten million. The likelihood of contracting
cancer from 0.1 mSv is 1.5 in ten million.
smoking
one
A Soviet
analysis shows that the cancer rate of people
in
living
the vicinity of a thermal power station is
higher that that of people living in the vicintity of a
power station.
30
times
nuclear
die
According to a US analysis, some 400,000 persons a year will
Of this number
from cancer between the years 1970 and 2000.
389,500
will
have contracted cancer through causes
radiation. They account for 97.4%.
other than
Total of cancer victims from radiation 10,463. They account for
2.6% of the total.
Natural background radiation 6,700
Medical radiation
Air travel
Nuclear armanents testing
Nuclear powered industry
3,300
230
230
3
The number of deaths due to radiation from nuclear powered
industry: only 3 persons. They account for only 0.00075%.
The
chances of contracting cancer from
radiation are less that 1/100,000!!
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industrial
nuclear