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* https://www.mn.uio.no/fysikk/tjenester/kunnskap/straling/radon-and-lung-cancer.pdf ''Radon, Lung Cancer, and the LNT Model'', 2016 Review by the Biophyics and Medical Physics group at University of Oslo, Norway.
* Chapter 6 "Fear of radiation, cancer, health, ALARA, cost" in [https://electrifyingourworld.com/?page_id=834 Electrifying our World, Robert Hargraves (2021)] a good summary of studies on the health effects of low-level radiation.
* https://electrifyingourworld.com/ - Website of Dr. Robert Hargraves, see section 6. Fear of radiation, cancer, health, ALARA, cost.
* https://electrifyingourworld.com/ - Website of Dr. Robert Hargraves, see section 6. Fear of radiation, cancer, health, ALARA, cost.
* https://therationalview.podbean.com/e/summary-of-the-linear-no-threshold-controversy - The LNT controversy. Dr. Allan Scott interviews thyroid cancer expert Professor Geraldine Thomas of Imperial College London, Dr. Edwin Lyman, Director of Nuclear Power Safety at the Union of Concerned Scientists, radiation dosimetry expert Dr. Blake Walters of Canada's National Research Council, and nuclear accident expert Dr. Philip Thomas, Professor of Risk Management at University of Bristol.
* https://therationalview.podbean.com/e/summary-of-the-linear-no-threshold-controversy - The LNT controversy. Dr. Allan Scott interviews thyroid cancer expert Professor Geraldine Thomas of Imperial College London, Dr. Edwin Lyman, Director of Nuclear Power Safety at the Union of Concerned Scientists, radiation dosimetry expert Dr. Blake Walters of Canada's National Research Council, and nuclear accident expert Dr. Philip Thomas, Professor of Risk Management at University of Bristol.
* https://www.x-lnt.org/debate - review of literature on Radiation Hormesis
* Sponsler, R. and Cameron, J.R. (2005) '[http://www.probeinternational.org/low-dose-NSWS-shipyard.pdf Nuclear shipyard worker study] (1980–1988): a large cohort exposed to low-dose-rate gamma radiation’, Int. J. Low Radiation, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp.463–478. "The high-dose workers demonstrated significantly lower circulatory, respiratory, and all-cause mortality than did unexposed workers. Mortality from all cancers combined was also lower in the exposed cohort."
* Moss, D. (2013) [http://taiwan-apt-cancer-data-analysis.blogspot.com 'An Analysis of Cancer Incidence in Taiwan Apartment Residents Subjected to Low Dose Radiation'] interesting because this analysis of the data contradicts what the original authors concluded.
* Evans, R.D. (1974) '[https://journals.lww.com/health-physics/Abstract/1974/11000/Radium_in_Man_.10.aspx Radium in Man]', Health Physics, Vol. 27, No. 5, pp.497-510. "At cumulative dosages below the order of 1000 skeletal average rads no clinically significant radiobiological injury has yet been observed in the M.I.T. series over a time span of 40–50 yr in more than 500 persons."

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  • Chapter 6 "Fear of radiation, cancer, health, ALARA, cost" in Electrifying our World, Robert Hargraves (2021) a good summary of studies on the health effects of low-level radiation.
  • https://electrifyingourworld.com/ - Website of Dr. Robert Hargraves, see section 6. Fear of radiation, cancer, health, ALARA, cost.
  • https://therationalview.podbean.com/e/summary-of-the-linear-no-threshold-controversy - The LNT controversy. Dr. Allan Scott interviews thyroid cancer expert Professor Geraldine Thomas of Imperial College London, Dr. Edwin Lyman, Director of Nuclear Power Safety at the Union of Concerned Scientists, radiation dosimetry expert Dr. Blake Walters of Canada's National Research Council, and nuclear accident expert Dr. Philip Thomas, Professor of Risk Management at University of Bristol.
  • Sponsler, R. and Cameron, J.R. (2005) 'Nuclear shipyard worker study (1980–1988): a large cohort exposed to low-dose-rate gamma radiation’, Int. J. Low Radiation, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp.463–478. "The high-dose workers demonstrated significantly lower circulatory, respiratory, and all-cause mortality than did unexposed workers. Mortality from all cancers combined was also lower in the exposed cohort."
  • Moss, D. (2013) 'An Analysis of Cancer Incidence in Taiwan Apartment Residents Subjected to Low Dose Radiation' interesting because this analysis of the data contradicts what the original authors concluded.
  • Evans, R.D. (1974) 'Radium in Man', Health Physics, Vol. 27, No. 5, pp.497-510. "At cumulative dosages below the order of 1000 skeletal average rads no clinically significant radiobiological injury has yet been observed in the M.I.T. series over a time span of 40–50 yr in more than 500 persons."