Radiation is a natural process that is occurring at all times all around us. It is measured in units called millirems (mrems). The average person experiences a dose of about 620 mrems per year. International Standards consider exposure to as much as 5,000 mrems (5 rem) a year safe for those who work with and around radioactive material. There is a myth that all ionizing radiation such as X-rays, CT scans, gamma rays, nuclear radiation, etc., is harmful to our health, no matter how low the dose. This, however, is no more true than that the Earth is flat or that one can turn base metals into gold through alchemy. Like every other agent that has been in the environment of developing bacterial, plant and animal life over the last 3 billion years or so, radiation has three ranges, too little, too much and just right. ¹

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