Epidemiologic Studies of Radiation Workers - Paper 134
- National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, 7910 Woodmont Avenue, Suite 400, Bethesda, MD 20814 Vanderbilt University (United States)
Studies of U.S. radiation workers are important because: (1) they provide information on the level of cancer and non-cancer risk following chronic exposure situations that are relevant today in medicine, occupation and environmental circumstances; (2) healthy U.S. workers are more similar to today's populations than Japanese 1945 atomic bomb survivors; (3) findings will be directly relevant to regulated worker populations; (4) organ-specific risk coefficients will be directly relevant to compensation programs; and (5) the dosimetric and epidemiologic findings can be integrated with the developing new understandings in biology for risk estimation for low doses and low dose rates. The ongoing Study of One Million U.S. Radiation Workers and Veterans is ten times larger than the study of the Japanese atomic bomb survivors of 86,000 survivors with estimated doses. The number of workers with > 100 mSv career dose is substantially greater. The large study size, broad range of doses and long follow-up indicates substantial statistical ability to quantify the risk of exposures that are received gradually over time. The study is designed to determine whether dose rate influences the future risk of cancer compared with the instantaneous exposure experienced by Japanese bomb survivors in 1945. This national effort is being coordinated by the NCRP and Vanderbilt University and includes collaborators within many government agencies (notably the DOE Low Dose Program, NRC, NASA and NCI), universities and the private sector. The study consists of 360,000 Department of Energy workers from the Manhattan Project, 150,000 nuclear utility workers from the inception of the nuclear age, 115,000 atomic veterans who participated in above ground atmospheric test at the Nevada Test Site and the Bikini Islands, 250,000 radiologists and medical workers, and 130,000 industrial radiographers. (author)
- Research Organization:
- American Nuclear Society - ANS, 555 North Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park, IL 60526 (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 23082952
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: RPSD 2014: 18. Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division of ANS, Knoxville, TN (United States), 14-18 Sep 2014; Other Information: Country of input: France; available on CD Rom from American Nuclear Society - ANS, 555 North Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park, IL 60526 (US)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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