Jim Green is an

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campaigner with

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. Green is a regular media commentator on nuclear issues. He has an honours degree in public health from the

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and was awarded a PhD in

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for his analysis of the

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research reactor debates.EnergyScience Coalition
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Green and Peter Karamoskos (a nuclear radiologist) say there is growing scientific confidence in the

linear no-threshold model The linear no-threshold model (LNT) is a dose-response model used in radiation protection to estimate stochastic health effects such as radiation-induced cancer, genetic mutations and teratogenic effects on the human body due to exposure to io ...

for ionising radiation. The linear no-threshold model is used by Green to assert "Nuclear medicine is killing more people than the reactor and the isotope processing facility and everything else at

", adding "it is likely that of the people subjected to nuclear medicine in the year 2007 almost 500 will die from those nuclear medicine procedures at some time in the future." Balanced against this view is the benefit to tens of thousand of people in having the medical conditions correctly diagnosed and treated, often saving their lives, and the highly successful treatment of serious conditions such as cancer. According to Green and Karamoskos, the alternative view, that low-level radiation is harmless, is limited to a small number of scientists "whose voice is greatly amplified by the nuclear industry". In Australia, for example, "uranium mining and exploration companies such as Toro Energy,

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and

Heathgate Resources Heathgate Resources Pty Ltd is a uranium mining company owned by the US-based nuclear company, General Atomics.Evans, Simo"Fukushima fallout for uranium stings Heathgate Resources"''Australian Financial Review'', 2013-08-26. Heathgate owns and op ...

have sponsored speaking tours by scientists who claim that low level radiation exposure is not only harmless but actually good for you".

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*Yellowcake Country? Australia's uranium industry {{DEFAULTSORT:Green, Jim Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Australian anti–nuclear power activists Friends of the Earth Sustainability advocates University of Wollongong alumni

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