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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.
T. Ishigami, E. Cazzoli, M. Khatib-Rahbar, +, S. D. Unwin†
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 101 | Number 4 | April 1989 | Pages 371-383
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE89-A23625
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Several existing methods for the assessment of the sensitivity of output uncertainty distributions generated by deterministic computer models to the uncertainty distributions assigned to the input parameters are reviewed and new techniques are proposed. Merits and limitations of the various techniques are examined by detailed application to the suppression pool aerosol removal code (SPARC).
