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"Low Level
Radiation Health Effects: Compiling  the Data"

Revision 1
March 19, 1998

by Radiation, Science, and Health, Inc.,
Edited by J. Muckerheide

1.2.1
Japanese Atomic Bomb Survivors

1.2.1.2
Non-Cancer>

References

Professor Emeritus Dr. Sohei Kondo reports (1993) on non-cancer effects that "...slight but insignifigant decreases in non-cancer deaths in bomb survivors exposed to 6 to 19, 20 to 49, 50 to 99, and 100 to 199 cGy occurred as early as 1950-1955. These seemingly beneficial effects of radiation were greater in men than in women."

Professor Emeritus Dr. Don Luckey of the School of Medicine, U. Missouri-Columbia reports (1991) on immunity that "The effects upon immunity from whole-body exposure to low doses of ionizing radiation found in experimental animals appear to be similar to those seen in humans. Immune cell response was generally greater in survivors from Hiroshima after 40 years than it was in Japanese controls"

     

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