Re: Testimony of Steve Wing to US House of Representatives

[Jim Muckerheide <jmuckerheide@delphi.com>]

Otto is right, but to add to that: 

There are ~50,000 within 2.5 km, and 36,500 outside 2.5 km. 

This a "sample" of the 1950 census with 280,000 claim to be exposed (~50% of
those within 2.5 km and 25% of those beyond 2.5 km). Per RERF with the
(questionable) DS86 dose estimates, at 2.5 km the in-air kerma doses for
Hiroshima is ~1 rem and Nagasaki ~2 rem. For the "sample" group, each
individual has a calculated estimated dose from the location and conditions
at-the-time-of bombing.

(There is supposedly a negligible fallout component, even to the distant
group.)

Regards, Jim
muckerheide@mediaone.net
Radiation, Science, and Health
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"Otto G. Raabe" wrote:
> 
> At 03:07 PM 7/28/00 -0500, Jerry Cohen:
> >
> >Anyway, didn't RERF use populations from
> >other areas of Japan (not affected by the bombs) as controls?
> >
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> August 9, 2000
> Davis, CA
> 
> NO!
> 
> There is NO "outside" control group in the current RERF analyses of the
> atomic bomb survivors. The survivors with low doses are the de facto controls.
> 
> Otto
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