Does Jimmy Carter's long life prove some exposure to radiation is OK?

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Former USA President Jimmy Carter, a pioneer in nuclear engineering, has lived nearly 98 years despite significant radiation exposure during his involvement in the extraction of the world's first melted-down reactor core over 70 years ago. Carter and his team received approximately 1000 times the radiation exposure allowed by current safety protocols, yet he has remained healthy and fathered four children, challenging assumptions about radiation's effects. However, the discussion emphasizes that radiation damage is probabilistic, and individual cases like Carter's do not warrant changes to established safety standards.

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Former USA President Jimmy Carter seems to be near the end of his 98 years, and was one of the original US Navy nuclear engineers. Over 70 years ago, he led a team that extracted out the world's first melted down core out of a Canadian reactor, himself going 90 seconds into the "dead zone" - and had radioactive urine for 6 months afterwards. It is estimated that he and his team got a dousing about 1000X as much as is allowed under today's protocols. Besides the risk of death, there was a risk that we would be infertile (4 children later, obviously that did not happen).

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/chalk-river-nuclear-accident-1.6293574
 
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Radiation damage is a probabilistic event so a single case does not constitute proof for changing of standards.
Everyone is exposed to radiation everyday and many survive. Some do not.
 
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