Daily, decades-long exposure to radium for watch painters resulted in a high cumulative dose, but long duration mitigated some negative effects.

“it was probably at that area was probably a couple of millisevers to the to that particular area but it was daily for decades yeah and so part of the reason why they they if you actually look at the numbers it was probably a super high exposure but when you spread that out over such a long period of time that's sort of the general trend like I mentioned earlier it's not just the dose it's the dose over time it's you know and the denominator matters a lot and so that's why most of them actually did very well”