Low level radiation health effects data sources:
Data show non-linear, biphasic, effects of low dose radiation;
Radiation hormesis, and medical and health benefits

Selected documents by RSH members, and others - with Highlights

Science Papers
Radiobiology Deceptions Reject Health, 2000, by T. D. Luckey, Ph.D., [ PDF 146KB ] Prof. Emeritus, U. Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine. Presented at ICONE 8, 8^th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, April 2-6, 2000, Baltimore, MD USA.   tdl108@sunflower.com

There has NEVER been a Time when the Beneficial Effects of Low-Dose Ionizing Radiation were NOT Known, 2002, by Jim Muckerheide, [PDF 530KB] Center for Nuclear Technology and Society at WPI, Radiation, Science, and Health, Inc., Massachusetts State Nuclear Engineer, rad_sci_health@comcast.net 

Technical Articles
WHAT’S SO AND WHAT’S NOT - On Radiation & Nuclear Power, by Theodore Rockwell, Sc.D., March 2003

Excerpts from: SOME NON-SCIENTIFIC INFLUENCES ON RADIATION PROTECTION STANDARDS AND PRACTICE,
by Lauriston S. Taylor (selected by John R. Cameron) Physics & Society News, April 1998

Books/Reviews
"Health Effects of Low-Level Radiation" Copyright 1993, By Dr. Sohei Kondo, Kinki University, Prof. Emeritus, Osaka University, Medical Physics Publishing Co., Madison WI.

Presentations [Links to Presentations on the Internet (later)]
Dose-effect relationship in the immune system after exposure to ionizing radiation
Dr. Shu-Zheng Liu, Before the American Nuclear Society, Nov 2002.
drliusz@yahoo.com

Non-Linear Dose-Effect Relationship in Radiation Immunology
(PowerPoint slide presentation converted for the Web) Dr. Shu-Zheng Liu, Amherst, June 2002.

Data Correspondence
Cancer is an accumulation of failure of repair, by Jim Muckerheide,  August 14, 1998.
     The New York Times reports on a paper in the Aug 15 Science magazine. "When BRCA1 is defective, it is unable to repair oxidative DNA damage, the most common insult to the genetic material of cells throughout the body... An accumulation of genetic damage to the DNA is how overexposure to sunlight can cause skin cancer and an overdose of radiation from X-rays can cause cancer in internal tissues like the thyroid gland. When oxidative damage occurs in genes that determine cell growth and when the mechanism that normally repairs such damage fails to work properly, the cell is no longer able to keep its growth in check and a malignant tumor results."
     The evidence of large oxidative DNA damage and repair compared to radiation, and the role of failed or overwhelmed repair mechanisms as the cause of cancer, continues to dramatically accumulate, contradicting the biological basis for the 'linear model'.

Conferences/Proceedings:
RSH Symposium on "Medical Benefits of Low Dose Radiation,"  November 15, 2000, Washington, D.C., with Initial Summary Report
[Preliminary Program and original Announcement Letter - RSH News and Activities Section]

International Radiation Protection Association
IRPA-10, Quadrenial Conference, May 2000, Hiroshima JAPAN

International Conference on Nuclear Engineering
[4^th New Orleans LA, Mar 1996]
[6^th San Diego CA, May 1998]
[7^th Tokyo JAPAN, May 1999]
[8^th Baltimore MD, Apr 2000]
[10^th Nice France, Apr 2000]

Radiation Health Effects: Applying Data to Standards, Special Symposium: 7th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, April 21, 1999, Concorde Ball Room, Keio Plaza Inter-Continental Tokyo

Waste Management Symposia, Tuscon, AZ
[WM'98, Mar 1998]
[WM'99, Mar 1999]
[WM '00, Mar 2000]
[WM '01, Feb 2001]
[WM'02, Feb 2002]

Bridging Radiation Policy and Science Conference, (BRPS), December 1-5, 1999
     A by-invitation "retreat" by 70 world leaders of the radiation protection extablishment, without recognition of the science nor the participation by the science and science critics that refute the LNT. This was a follow-up to the previous international "Wingspread Conference"  by-invitation "retreat" Jul-Aug 1997 of 50 leaders.  Wingspread agreements for open assessment of the science and radiation protection policies provided for progress to establish credible science and public policy, but there was no progress despite these agreements.  Despite the agreements, biased "scientific" actions by the radiation protection establishment were undertaken such as:  the Nov 1997 IAEA Seville Conference; the Feb 1998 BEIR VI report; the Oct 1998 NCRP SC1-6 draft report; and extreme regulatory initiatives, such as the trivial non-issue "debate" between EPA and NRC over 15 vs. 25 mrem/yr for cleanup standards (to provide zero public health benefit but enormous public costs); EPA 'radionuclides in water' and 'radon in water' rules, the Yucca Mt. standards, and the ICRP extreme "Controllable Dose" proposal; and hundreds of hours of closeting members of Congress 'protect the LNT,' using HPS, radiation researchers, national laboratories, contractors, and others.  BRPS was organized to rescind those agreements, driven by the bias of the organizers and of Abel Gonzalez of IAEA and other ICRP and NCRP leaders.

WONUC - World Council of Nuclear Workers
"THE EFFECT OF LOW AND VERY LOW DOSES OF IONIZING RADIATION ON HUMAN HEALTH,"
[1st Conference, June 26-27, 1999, University of Versailles - Saint Quentin en Yvelines, France]
[2d Conference, June 2001, Dublin Ireland]

American Nuclear Society  
ANS Position Statement, June 2001 [PDF, 46KB] "Low level radiation health effects," with Technical Brief Document
[Washington DC, Nov 1994]
[Philadelphia PA, Jun 1995]
[San Francisco CA, Nov 1995]
[Washington DC, Nov 1996]
[Orlando FL, Jun 1997]
[Albuquerque NM, Nov 1997]
[Boston MA, June 1999]
[ Washington DC, Nov 2002]

Radiation Protection and Shielding Division Topical Meetings:
[April 2002]