The nuclear shipyard worker study eight years later
- John Cameron, Lone Rock, WI (United States)
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) funded a study of health effects of low-level radiation in shipyard workers that was completed in 1987. The final report was released in the fall of 1991, >3 yr after its due date. The results of this roughly $10 million study have yet to appear in the peer-reviewed scientific literature. Since the author was a member of the Technical Advisory Panel for the contract, the author felt obligated to make the results of the study more widely known. The study casts serious doubts on the linear no-threshold model of radiation risk and the as-low-as-reasonably-achievable policy. The database from this research may provide additional useful information for other health effects unrelated to radiation.
- OSTI ID:
- 426558
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-961103--
- Journal Information:
- Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, Journal Name: Transactions of the American Nuclear Society Vol. 75; ISSN 0003-018X; ISSN TANSAO
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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