>A couple of things that would add to those figures today. At the time,
>there was a belief in what was call a "threshold" of damage. Radiation
>below that was thought to be harmless...
I was remembering a previous short discussion on nuclear power on lbotalk. It was almost exactly a year ago in fact: http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2010/2010-March/004918.html
Gar, what do you think about thorium reactor research, the topic of that earlier thread?