Re: Anti-radiation article -Thoughts please!

[Bernard L Cohen <blc+@pitt.edu>]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Aaron Oakley wrote:

> Comments please!
> 
> Your thoughts on the following (anti-radiation) article would be
> appreciated!
> 
> Deaths per million workers
> per year, worldwide:
> 
> Manufacturing workers                  110
> Construction workers                    164
> Radiation workers @ 3mSv       5,500
> Radiation workers @ 20mSv  37,500

	--These comparisons are between accident risks from other
industries and occupational disease risks from the nuclear industry. I
have published a paper on this subject, Perspective on occupational
mortality risks, Health Physics 40: 703-724;1981. The final conclusion is
that the loss of life expectancy to a radiation worker from radiation
induced cancer (assuming LNT) is 12 days, while the average American
worker loses 500 days of life expectancy due to occupational disease.

> 
Bernard L. Cohen
Physics Dept.
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Tel: (412)624-9245
Fax: (412)624-9163
e-mail: blc+@pitt.edu


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