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If you are interested in the details of cancer and radiation risk, then you might find NCRP Report No. 153 interesting. This report goes into some detail about how radiation recommendations for beyond LEO are made. I wonder if anyone in the Mars One organization has read it?
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Again, if you are interested in the details, the methods used can be found in NCRP Report 126.
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Radiation dosage is measured in Sieverts. On Earth, a person absorbs less than one thousandth of a Sievert per year. A cumulative dose of one Sievert might increase the risk of fatal cancer by almost 25 percent. This level of risk would exceed NASA’s acceptable risk limits.
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Seedhouse, E. (2017). Medical mission-killers. In: Mars One. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44497-0_6
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