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RE: Ah, the good old days!

<0.5 rem per quarter (or 5 mSV) is in compliance with today's dose limit. ORNL was a competent American national lab with high standards even back in the 1960s. Another hollow argument from today's incompetent nuclear industry.

"Exposure of personnel to radiation has been held well below permissible limits: the maximum exposure of any individual in any quarter has been <0.5 rem." http://moltensalt.org/references/static/downloads/pdf/NAT_MS...

"The maximum annual dose allowed for radiation workers is 20 mSv/yr" https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and...




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