radiation health effect

Do chemical properties of radionuclides contribute to radiation health effects?

For some reason the greenies believe in the science of global warming but not the science of radiation health effects.

The consensus of the nuclear industry, regulators and governments regarding radiation health effects is expressed by the International Commission on Radiological Protection.

Alice Stewart, the inspiration for Sternglass' work on radiation health effects, firmly repudiated it, saying of an encounter with him in 1969:

Additionally, studies of populations residing near DOE installations, and other studies of radiation health effects, such as classic studies of atomic bomb survivors and the radium dial painters, are represented in CEDR.

In the last few years Stewart has been trying to build the case that data on Hiroshima survivors, the main source of our knowledge about radiation health effects, is a poor yardstick for predicting the health of nuclear workers, who get their doses in small, chronic increments, not in one large event.

A 1984 survey by a local psychologist of 450 local residents, documenting acute radiation health effects (as well as 19 cancers 1980-84 amongst the residents against an expected 2.6), ultimately led the TMI Public Health Fund reviewing the data and supporting a comprehensive epidemiological study by a team at Columbia University.