The LNT report : how bad science made the world afraid of nuclear power
(2025)
By:
Conley, Mike
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
NEW 363.1799/CONLEY,M
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Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Chicago [Illinois] : Open Universe ; Peru, Illinois : Carus Books, 2025
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xv, 184 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781637700655, 1637700652, 9781637700655
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"This is the long, strange tale of LNT ('Linear No-Threshold'), the late Dr. Hermann Muller's claim that any amount of nuclear radiation, even a tiny dose, does some amount of harm. Devised nearly a century ago, and still considered gospel by far too many people, the LNT hypothesis falsely claims that there is no safe dose of radiation and that all doses are cumulative. As the story unfolds, you'll discover how the regulations for low-dose ionizing radiation have been based on bad science (BS) right from the start, and you'll learn what can be done to remedy the error"--Pages xi-xii