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A better model? Low levels of radiation and health effects
One of the more pivotal issues in facilitating the use of radiation sources—including nuclear power—in the United States (and most of the Western world) is concern about the health effects of low levels of radiation. The current regulatory assumption is that every additional increment of radiation linearly increases the risk of cancer.
S. D. Paranjape, D. C. Sahni
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 101 | Number 2 | February 1989 | Pages 153-165
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE89-A23604
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The linear Fokker-Planck equation characterizing charged-particle transport in a fully ionized plasma has been solved in one-dimensional spherical geometry by the techniques of Fourier transformation and Legendre expansion. The vacuum boundary condition at the plasma surface has been treated by appending to the plasma a fictitious medium in which angular dispersion is absent. The solution technique has been applied to the problem of alpha-particle slowing down in a fully ionized inertial confinement fusion plasma.
