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Other Radiation
Science Policy
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France:
Academy of Medicine;
Dec 4, 2001
Statement on Radiation Health Effects
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American
Nuclear Society Position
Statement 41, June 2001
"Low level radiation health effects"
[PDF 46KB]
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The
"Data Documents"
produced by:
Radiation,
Science, and Health; and
the Mass. Governor's Advisory Council on Radiation
Protection
Partial, growing, summaries of the
scientific data on low dose radiation health effects.
Consistent non-linear, biphasic, effects: Radiation hormesis
Contributions from the many independent, knowledgeable, scientists and
data that are not considered by radiation protection policy interests.
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following selections contain partial contents of the printed versions: |
> "Low
Level Radiation Health Effects: Compiling the Data,"
2nd
Edition, Radiation,
Science, and Health:
Rev
1, Mar 19, 1998, Rev
2, Mar 30, 1999; Rev 3, Mar 30, 2000;
Rev 4, Feb 18, 2001 |
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Radiation Health Effects: a Compilation of Data and Programs"
Revision 4,
Mass. Governor's Advisory Council on Radiation Protection,
March 1998,
March 1999, March 2000, March 2001, Ed. James
Muckerheide, Mass. State Nuclear Engineer, Mass. Emergency Management Agency.
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>1st
Edition,
Feb 19, 1997,
The original Cover,
Preface, and Executive
Summary.
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Selected documents by RSH members, and
others - with Highlights
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
ABSTRACT:
It is well known that immune surveillance is one
of the most important defense mechanisms against
cancer and infection. Most carcinogens are immuno-suppressants.
So is ionizing radiation, but only at medium to
high doses. The stimulatory effect of low dose
radiation (LDR) on immunity has been studied at
molecular, cellular as well as organism levels.
The dose-effect relationship, in a coordinated
manner, of 52 immunologic parameters are pooled to
construct dose-effect curves... These curves have
10~11 doses between 0 to 10 Gy. To construct such
³complete² curves, we must choose 3~4 dose points
in each section of 0.01~0.1 Gy, 0.1~1.0 Gy and
1.0~10.0 Gy. Many studies neglect doses below 0.2
Gy, thus the LDR effect is missed. It is shown
that omitting data at doses between 0.025 and 0.2
Gy, gives rise to quadratic curves instead of the
J- or inverted J-shaped curves.
Non-Linear Dose-Effect Relationship in Radiation
Immunology
(PowerPoint slide
presentation converted for the Web)
Dr. Shu-Zheng Liu,
Amherst, June
2002.
Dose-effect
relationship is one of the most important features
in radiobiology studies. In view of the diversity
of biological phenomena it is difficult to
formulate a universal does-effect model. For doses
above 0.5 Gy one can usually construct a linear or
linear-quadratic curve. When doses go down to
below 0.1~0.2 Gy, the situation may be different
due to the distinct biological effects in the low
dose region. Thus other models such as J or
inverted J curves are usually observed.
Radiation Risks in the 20th
Century; Reality, Illusions and Risks
by
Zbigniew
Jaworowski M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc.,
September 1998, in Warsaw, Poland.
This is the text of the Prof. Jaworowski's Lecture
at the "Discovery of Polonium and Radium; It's
Scientific and Philosophical Consequences,
Benefits and Treats for Mankind" International
Conference (100th Anniversary of the Discovery of
Polonium and Radium by Marie Sklodowska- Curie),
held 17-20 September 1998 in Warsaw, Poland.
"We are all exposed to natural ionizing radiation,
which penetrates all living organisms. Radiation
comes from the cosmos and from radionuclides
present in rocks, buildings, and air, and in our
own body. Each flake of snow, grain of soil, drop
of rain, a flower, and even each man in the street
is a source of this radiation."
Who Will
Speak for Truth? The Case of Nuclear Radiation,
by
Dr. Theodore Rockwell,
[ rtf file 55KB ]
at Penn State University, September 2000.
"When I worked
for Admiral Rickover during the Cold War years, we
had one thing going for us that is hard to find today.
Although many people opposed us, including some in
high places, still there were a few serious and important
people to whom we could go for guidance, insight and
help, confident that their personal and institutional
loyalties and biases would not prevent them from speaking
openly and honestly about problems we both
wanted resolved. Today, in the area I will
discuss this evening, most people whose apparent objectives
are the same as mine, often work to ignore or obscure
or distort scientific facts that seem to endanger
their more pressing goals. So, statements
that seem to me simple truths, or facts of nature,
cannot be acknowledged as such by those whose reputations
and incomes are dependent on fear and mystery being
associated with those facts."
Senator Pete Domenici, at the Gordon
Research Conference-Nuclear Waste and Energy,
August 16, 1998.
"Radiation
dose standards based on the LNT overestimate risk,
and effects based on LNT are used to frighten the
public. He further discusses many issues on the benefits
and need for resurgence of nuclear technology."
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