The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has upheld the Linear No-Threshold model to prescribe radiation safety standards, ending the protracted controversy on the topic.
- The LNT model states that biological effects such as cancer and hereditary effects due to exposure to ionising radiation increase as a linear function of dose, without threshold.
- In another words, the linear no-threshold (LNT) model describes relationship between risk of harmful effects and the amount of exposure to ionizing radiation.
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