[ExI] How dangerous is radiation?
John Clark
johnkclark at gmail.com
Tue Jul 8 17:29:13 UTC 2014
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Radiologists are reputed to have a lower rate of cancer, but it's also
> thought that high energy physicist die at higher rates
> from leukemia.
There are lots and lots of radiologists but I wonder if there are enough
high energy physicist to get a statistically meaningful result. And anyway
when the beam is on there's 300 feet of rock between them and the
radiation, neutrinos can still get through but I very much doubt they are
harmful.
John K Clark
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