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> I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. NRC is a US government.

I thought it was perhaps appropriate, if we're quantifying US Navy occupational exposure to a US citizen, to compare to US civilian reactor exposure limits. It doesn't seem appropriate to call me "wrong" in this context.

> For DOE 50 mSv is regulatory limit and 20mSv is administrative control level.

Sure: one needs controls well short of the regulatory limit to keep pretty much everyone short of the limit. Most nuclear medicine workers and reactor workers are well under 2mSv/year in the US. A few outliers end up with lifetime doses of a few hundred mSv.

P.S. Something went wrong here:

> 100mSv is a 0.55% increase in risk. So 50mSv is a 0.055% increase risk

In that you halved the dosage but divided the risk by 10, when saying you were evaluating it under LNT.



> In that you halved the dosage but divided the risk by 10, when saying you were evaluating it under LNT.

Ops, that's my bad and it is too late to edit. Thanks for the correction.




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