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Professor
and Chairman Emeritus of the Dept. of Biochemistry, of the U. Missouri-Columbia School of
Medicine, Dr. T.D. Luckey reports (1994) on nuclear worker health effects
that: "A total of 35,933 white male workers (5,546 deaths) from three United States
nuclear weapons plants with lifetime exposures of 2 to 20 cSv had lower total cancer
mortality rates than internal controls, p<0.001. …The optimum exposure appeared to
be more than 1 cSv per year. The combined workers had a lower cancer mortality rate than
that of the United States population; the SMR was 0.79." Professor Luckey also provides an update (1997) on "information from available studies with significant numbers of exposed nuclear workers and unexposed workers" that show lower cancer in exposed workers. |
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