Existing eye safety standards are not suitable for specifying safety limits to which individuals are exposed on a daily basis. A possible approach to this problem is to relate safety limits to radiation doses found in nature. Although this method produces extremely conservative safety limits, it greatly reduces the possibility of temporary lesions encountered within existing guidelines.
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