[lnwlebjel]

On thing I never see in these discussions is the toll on workers via radiation exposure. I worked at a nuclear plant in the 1990s and the exposure allowed to outage workers who worked six months a year was something like 5 REM, or 50yrs off radiation in 6 months. Are these deaths included in the statistics? It appears not - part of the issue undoubtedly is causal attribution to a cancer that occurs many years later. A cursory search of the literature suggests that not a lot of work has been done on this.

[chickenbig]

You went from dose to questioning whether their deaths are included. Did you have knowledge that there were there an abnormal number of deaths among the outage workers?

5 Rem is 50 mSv; the Wikipedia Sievert page lists this as "U.S. 10 C.F.R. § 20.1201(a)(1)(i) occupational dose limit, total effective dose equivalent, and the global average background radiation dose is 2.4 mSv/a, so ~20 years worth of background radiation.

[Vecr]

Are you calculating under LNT (Linear No Threshold)? Otherwise unless the rate is spiky it might be fine.