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Alex Pollard
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There is a big difference between diffuse exposure to ionising radiation and a radioactive particle consisting of radioactive atoms with long half-lives constantly peppering away at a small volume of surrounding body tissue. The chart doesn’t appear to account for that qualitative difference and so understates the risk from nuclear fallout.