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Feasibility Of Developing Exposure Estimates For Use In Epidemiological Studies Of Radioactive Emissions From The Santa Susana Field Laboratory, Jan Beyea Ph.D.

Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL)

This report provides exposure estimates to assist epidemiologists in deciding on the effectiveness of studies of radiation-induced disease around the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL). Developing such estimates was a difficult challenge, because the site is extremely complex from the meteorological perspective, there is limited information available about releases of radioactivity in the 1950s and 60s, and some meteorological data is withheld by the plant owner. As a result, the estimates in this report are limited to scoping calculations that carry a wide range of uncertainty, complicating their use for estimation of statistical power. Nevertheless, they represent the current state …

The Yucca Mountain Legacy Project, Healing Ourselves And Mother Earth (Home), Jennifer Viereck, John Hadder, George Rice

Healing Ourselves and Mother Earth (HOME)

HOME envisions the Yucca Mountain Legacy Project as a proactive initiative to develop an environmental/health baseline before contamination from the NTS or the proposed Yucca Mountain Repository reaches surrounding communities. Phase I of the project is a stakeholder driven process to assist current residents immediately downstream. Our study will also be important to future generations who will be downgradient of the Pahute Mesa underground nuclear weapons testing area.

This research was completed money allocated during Round 6 of the Citizens’ Monitoring and Technical Assessment Fund (MTA Fund). Clark University was named conservator of these works.

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Health Risks Of Ionizing Radiation: An Overview Of Epidemiological Studies, Clark University, Abel Russ, Casey Burns, Seth Tuler, Octavia Taylor

Clark University

A Report by the Community-Based Hazard Management Program, George Perkins Marsh Institute, Clark University.

The health risks of exposure to low levels of ionizing radiation are disputed within the scientific community. Risks associated with exposure to high levels of radiation are widely accepted and well documented based primarily on the studies of the atomic bomb survivors in Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Some feel that the best way to estimate risk for low- level exposures is to extrapolate from higher doses, although there is some clear evidence of low-dose risk. In this overview we have attempted to give an unbiased summary of …