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What is Dirty Bomb?

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What is Dirty Bomb?

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Radioactive material is added / incorporated into the conventional explosives, which on explosion spreads radioactive contamination and create panic situation in the public domain. This is one of the possible terrorist activities. return to the top Q 21] What is radiation hormesis It is the hypothesis to explain the lower cancer incidences at higher radiation background areas, and inverse correlation between ling cancer mortality and indoor radon levels in some US counties. Adaptive response / enhanced immunity of the biological system at low dose levels are being invoked to explain the effect. If accepted, the radiation hormesis concept challenges the very basic approach of linear non-threshold model traditionally used by the ICRP for the dose-response relationship.