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The effects of low‐dose radiation: Soviet science, the nuclear industry – and independence?
Author(s) -
Møller Anders Pape,
Mousseau Timothy A.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2013.00630.x
Subject(s) - nuclear industry , low dose radiation , independence (probability theory) , nuclear radiation , radiation dose , radiation exposure , political science , nuclear medicine , engineering , nuclear engineering , biology , medicine , dose–response relationship , statistics , mathematics , endocrinology
Chernobyl and Fukushima have led to worldwide interest in the effects of so‐called low‐dose radiation. But research so far has been a puzzling mix of Soviet science and research supported by the nuclear industry, with some independent scientists contributing. Anders Pape Møller and Timothy A. Mousseau navigate between th ese diverse efforts to investigate the effects of low‐dose radiation on animals, plants and people.