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A few milliSieverts is probably the realistic limit, though current values are possibly conservative. Great caution was exercised by the standard setters - and rightly so. Given disasters such as Three Mile Island, Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Bikini Atoll, Chernobyl and so on.
Effects of radiation damage include cancers, skin burn, changes in the sex ratio of new born, deformities in newborn.
Your exposure to background radiation is a few millisieverts per day. But if you live in a granite area, (or have radon gas under your house) your background might be higher.
Your response to more exposure depends greatly whether it occurs as a single large dose, or several small doses over a period of time. The former is NOT GOOD, but the latter is normal practice in nuclear medicine, where for example a tumor may be irradiated over several days.
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