RSH Data & Documents

"The Health Effects of Low Level Radiation:
Science, Data, and Corrective Action"

A Summary Document of the results and conclusions of the technical papers presented in the 1994-1999 ANS LLRHE sessions.

ANS National Meetings / Sessions:
1994 - 1999

At the American Nuclear Society's 1994 Winter Meeting in Washington, DC, there were two special sessions on "Low Level Radiation Health Effects," organized by Jim Muckerheide.  These sessions addressed actual dose-response data (not included in BEIR V), and applicable research programs.

Two additional sessions, on these topics plus "Policies and Cost/Benefits," were held at the June 1995 40th Annual ANS Meeting in Philadelphia, PA. The President-elect and members representing the Health Physics Society (HPS), and the President and a member of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP), contributed to these sessions.

At the October 29-November 2, 1995 ANS Winter Meeting in San Francisco, CA, four additional sessions, on these topics plus "Biology Research and Beneficial Effects" were held. In addition, there was a Panel Session, as an "Open Working Meeting" on "Needs for Research, Organization and Communication, and Corrective Actions".

At this meeting there was also the ANS "Wilhelm Roentgen Radiology Centennial Award and Lecture", by Professor Emeritus Myron Pollycove, MD, U. Cal. San Francisco (Nuclear Medicine), and NRC Medical Fellow, honored as the ANS "Wilhelm Roentgen Radiology Centennial Orator."

An Embedded Topical Meeting on Low Level Radiation Health Effects, with 6 sessions, was held in conjunction with the November 1996 ANS Winter Meeting.

One technical session, plus the President's Special Session, was held at the Annual Meeting in Orlando Florida in June 1997.

Two sessions were held at the ANS Winter Meeting in Albuquerque, NM in November 1997.

Four sessions were held at the ANS Annual Meeting in Boston MA in June 1999.  

In addition, a report is provided on a "President's Special Session" organized by the radiation protection "establishment" to ignore the scientific data, and commit to the costly (profitable) extreme radiation protection standards.