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Old 8th Dec 2017, 17:46
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noblues
 
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Thanks Radgril, some interesting facts.

I didn't at first believe your quote of max 50mSv for health care workers, but see that is true in the UK. I find that unbelievable!

My father in his mid 40's during the late 1970's used to work in laboratories that made radioactive isotopes for medical use, he loved his job, the radiation levels were always monitored but invariably it was higher than someone who didn't work in that industry.

He got bowl cancer after 5yrs of doing that relatively young, luckily he survived but refused to go back in the laboratories.
In his early 80's he was very fit and healthy until out the blue he was diagnosed with a rare form of Leukaemia and was dead within six months.
Almost certainly that was from working with radiation 40yrs previously.

His best friend who did the same job had a string of cancers too ....

This is maybe why I am sooooo cautious over radiation, its like smoking a cigarette - Its not going to kill you now but years down the road who knows what the dice will throw ....
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