More on Radiation Hazard of Video Screens

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To the Editor: The estimate given by Nashel et al. of the average radiation dose from older color television sets (Sept. 30 issue)1 is erroneous and misleading. The average dose is 100 to 200 times lower than their estimate. In calculating average annual radiation dose, using the formula by Neill et al., Nashel et al. chose 2.7 mR per hour as the average front-face exposure rate for the 12 television sets with the highest radiation readings from a total of 1124 surveyed. Simply discarding all sets with readings below 0.5 mR per hour (accounting for 98.9 per cent of . . .

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