RE: Solid-Tumor Mortality in the Vicinity of Uranium Cycle Facilities and Nuclear Po

["Jim Otton" <jkotton@usgs.gov>]

Jim,

The results are extremely interesting, but not surprising.  Areas where

uranium mines and mills occur are places where the natural radiation

environment is often enhanced (elevated radon, radium, and uranium in ground

water; elevated indoor radon- both from soil sources and domestic water

supplies; and, in some areas, elevated natural gamma).  Thus, one might

expect elevated relative risk for lung cancer (indoor radon) and renal

cancer (ingested uranium), but not necessarily from the

technologically-enhanced radiation/radiochemical environment near mines.

The International Atomic Energy Agency, Division of Nuclear Fuels, Vienna,

has commissioned a report on the natural radiation and radiochemical

background near uranium deposits.  I am involved in that effort and will be

writing the section on the natural background of U.S. uranium deposits.



Jim Otton

U.S. Geological Survey

Lakewood, Colorado



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Has anyone reviewed this paper?



http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2001/109p721-729lopez-abente/abstract.html

Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 109, Number 7, July 2001





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