[ RadSafe ] xkcd: Relative Radiation Dose chart

[Doug Huffman]

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Genevieve Matanowski's Naval Shipyard Workers Study, 'Health Effects of
Low Level Radiation Exposure in Naval Shipyard Workers'

This is the most thoroughly disappeared technical literature that I know.

On 3/28/2011 20:00, Ed Hiserodt wrote:
> Sandy,
> 
> You may recall in the Johns-Hopkins study of nuclear vs. non-nuclear
> shipyard workers that the cohort of some 70,000 participants were paired at
> random.  "You there, go to the nuclear ships, and you there to the
> non-nuclear."  How could a "healthy worker affect" be possible under these
> circumstances?  But the nuclear workers had a Standard Mortality Ratio of
> 0.74 when compared to the non-nuclear cohort.  Not what the study was
> expected to show.  (And probably why it was not published for almost 20
> years after analysis of the data.)
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