"Low Level
Radiation Health Effects: Compiling  the Data"

Revision 1
March 19, 1998
by Radiation, Science, and Health, Inc.,
Edited by J. Muckerheide

1.2.2
Ocupational

1.2.2.1
Weapons Plant Workers

References

"In a population of 3,145 current and former civilian employees at DOE facilities and the U.S. Navy’s Nuclear Reactor Propulsion Plants [exposed to >50 mSv (5 rem) in a year] for the years 1943 through 1978, follow-up doses for the tl cohort are presented in Table II [not provided].

"This population comprises individuals who were among the most highly exposed to radiation in the modern nuclear industry. We estimated that the study would be able to detect an increased risk for all cancers combined that was three times that estimated for low levels of radiation based on studies of the A-bomb survivors and other high-dose, high-dose-rate populations. From this perspective, the study was able to address allegations that the risks of radiation-induced cancers to those derived from underestimated ‘high-dose’ populations exposed to radiation at high dose rates are underestimated.

"Mortality due to all and selected site-specific cancers for the total cohort and for all white males in the cohort are given in Table III."

Table III