Organized by Jim Muckerheide

Chairman: Myron Pollycove, MD Visiting Medical Fellow at NRC, (Professor Emeritus UCSF Dept Nuclear Medicine, and Head of Nuclear Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital)

4 papers (ANS Transactions, Vol 72, June 1995):

"Radiation is Not Always Harmful to Human Health" Robert G. Thomas, Ph.D. (R. Thomas, Consultant, Former Director, Center for Human Radiobiology at Argonne and USDOE)

"An Alternative Viewpoint to the Biological Effects of Low-Level Exposures" Ralph R. Cook, MD (Corporate Director, Environmental Health and Epidemiology, Dow Corning; Member of, and representing, the BELLE Group)

"Lung Cancer and 222-Rn Progeny -- Some Methodological Issues" Peter G. Groer, Ph.D. (U. Tennessee, formerly Oak Ridge, and associate of Robley Evans)

"Long-Term Health Outcomes Among Nuclear Industry Workers Exposed to Ionizing Radiation in Excess of Occupational Standards" Shirley A. Fry, Ph.D. (ORISE)

Additional Panelists (scheduled to speak):

• Rosalyn S. Yalow, Ph.D., Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine 1977)
• Roy E. Shore, Ph.D. (Rep. NCRP - New York University)
• William Mills, Ph.D. (Rep. HPS - ORAU)
• Alden N. Tschaesche, Ph.D. (Fellow HPS - Lockheed Idaho)

Additional Panelists (not scheduled to speak):

• Charles B. Meinhold, Ph.D. (President, Rep. NCRP - Brookhaven)

"Low Level Radiation Health Effects: Policies and Cost/Benefits"

Organized by Jim Muckerheide

This session addresses the policy significance of the data to setting standards, and the relationship of those standards to public costs and benefits.