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by chickenbig 661 days ago
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. ยง 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.