Low-dose radiation effects – ScienceDirect

Highlights

•   Radiation, consumed by many microbes as nutrition, hits humans 20,000 times/s.
•   Radiation has affected biology through 4 billion years of evolutional history.
•   Low-dose radiation is indispensable and beneficial. It can treat COVID-19 patients.
•   A-bomb survivors have longer lifespans and lower cancer risk, on average.
•   The invalid linear no-threshold model (LNT) hinders radiation health applications.