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Answer to Question #10 Submitted to "Ask the Experts"Category: Radiation Effects — Low-Dose Effects The following question was answered by an expert in the appropriate field: Q
Low-level gamma radiation . . . how detrimental to health is it? What about exposures of less than 10 rem?
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For a start I recommend that you read one of our Society's Position Papers, "Radiation Risk in Perspective." You can view it on our Web site. Go to the home page and click on the "HPS Publications" button and then click on the "HPS Papers" button. If you have further questions please get back to us. The facts in the matter of radiation effects at low doses are very simple: no one knows whether there is any risk or not. All we can say now is that no one has detected any statistically significant effect at doses below about 100 mSv (10 rem). The Health Physics Society has a position paper on this subject.
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