Too small to see? Several investigators have shown that atomic bomb survivors, those that received somewhere between 100-200mSv of radiation live longer than the average non exposed Japanese population. (Kondo and now Sutou). Of the 350.000 registered survivors on 31 March 2023, about 80 years after the blasts 113.649 of them were still alive. Their average age is 85.01 years and that is remarkable because current Japanese life expectancy is 84.14 years.
John D. Boice Jr (2017) The linear nonthreshold (LNT) model as used in radiation protection: an NCRP update, International Journal of Radiation Biology, 93:10, 1079-1092, DOI: 10.1080/09553002.2017.1328750 doi.org/10.1016/j.cbi.2018.11.013
Too small to see? Several investigators have shown that atomic bomb survivors, those that received somewhere between 100-200mSv of radiation live longer than the average non exposed Japanese population. (Kondo and now Sutou). Of the 350.000 registered survivors on 31 March 2023, about 80 years after the blasts 113.649 of them were still alive. Their average age is 85.01 years and that is remarkable because current Japanese life expectancy is 84.14 years.
John D. Boice Jr (2017) The linear nonthreshold (LNT) model as used in radiation protection: an NCRP update, International Journal of Radiation Biology, 93:10, 1079-1092, DOI: 10.1080/09553002.2017.1328750
doi.org/10.1016/j.cbi.2018.11.013