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waxwing | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 So you believe there's a threshold. Back when I was studying this, I remember also feeling strongly that this should be true, logically.

Reminds me of the old (possibly apocryphal) story of the guy who dropped his banana from lunch on the floor of a nuclear power plant and it triggered alerts on people's dosimeter readings 😄

Natural sources are easily high enough to matter, a lot, with LNT. So yeah i agree it's probably just wrong, and 'ALARA' is ... not even wrong 😄
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The great gazoo | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 ya I think we're on the same page.  what do you mean when you say 'ALARA is ... not even wrong'?
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waxwing | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Oh sorry it's a joke reference to a critique of string theory, criticizing it as not being real science. Stimuff like ALARA/P is not really anything to do with science imo.