The Overestimation of Medical Consequences of Low-Dose Exposure to Ionizing Radiation with Special Reference to Cardio-And Cerebro-Vascular Conditions

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The harm caused by radiocontamination would tend to zero with a dose rate decreasing down to the level of the natural background. Epidemiological studies will hardly add reliable information on low-dose exposures to ionizing radiation: screening effect, selection, and ideological bias will lead to appearance of new reports on enhanced risks from low doses, which would prove no causality. Medical consequences of low-dose exposures have been systematically overestimated. This initiative has originated from Russia and some Green activists, who factually acted on behalf of fossil fuel producers, contributing to strangulation of atomic energy. Both Chernobyl accident and Ukraine war with shutdown of the Europe’s largest nuclear power plant have been exploited for the boosting of fossil fuel prices. The overestimation of the radiation-related harm is obvious in regard to cardiovascular conditions, whereas average doses, claimed to be associated with risks in exposed populations have been much lower than those leading to cardiac damage in animal experiments or after radiotherapy in humans. The overestimation of radiation-related cardiovascular risks casts doubt on cancer data by the same and other researchers. Today there are no alternatives to nuclear power. Gas and oil will increase in price, contributing to population growth in the fossil fuel producing countries, and poverty elsewhere. The research must be separated from economical and political interests. Reliable results can be obtained in large-scale animal experiments. The life duration is a sensitive endpoint attributable to radiation, which can measure the net harm, if any, from low-dose exposures. More details are in the book: https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-5100-8

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