Re: Radiation hypersensitivity

["Jack Earley" <jearley@enercon.com>]

As noted in another response, these individuals are identified early in

life, from which they also depart at a young age. I would expect their

treating physician to advise them to avoid high background areas, and

hopefully a treatment will be developed for them in the near future. The

Americans With Disabilities Act requires that reasonable accommodations be

made, not shutting down a power plant because someone with a real or

perceived medical condition moved in or was identified nearby or applied for

work. I wouldn't develop a dose minimization policy based on this

population.



Jack Earley

Radiological Engineer



Enercon Services, Inc.

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----- Original Message -----

From: "Jerry Cohen" <jjcohen@PRODIGY.NET>

To: <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>; <rad-sci-l@ans.ep.wisc.edu>

Sent: October 10, 2001 4:22 p.m.

Subject: Radiation hypersensitivity





> From: Prof.Dr.Klaus.Becker <Prof.Dr.Klaus.Becker@t-online.de>

>  >We should perhaps think a little about this question of "radiation

> >allergy"

> > and how to deal with it, before it is (technically and legally) feasible

> to

> > do large-scale genetic screening, e.g. of radiation workers. Obviously,

> >the

> > percentage must be small, but does any of you have good data or

arguments?

>

>      I think  the possibility that some individuals may be hypersensitive

to

> radiation deserves serious consideration. A good analogy to this situation

> can be found in the field of Industrial Hygiene as pertains to Beryllium

> exposure. From past observations it is apparent that the most workers who

> have experienced  high levels of exposure exhibit no harmful effects,

while

> a certain few show very serious effects and death from even the slightest

> exposure.

>     Given a situation of this nature, how should we determine what a

"safe"

> exposure level should be?

> From a societal standpoint, is it in the best interests of public health

to

> protect the most sensitive person, or what? Considering that some people

may

> be sensitive (allergic) to just about anything, to what extent should we

go

> to: (a) find such people and isolate them from possible exposure, or (b)

> restrict or eliminate the offending agent from use? One problem I envision

> assuming that some day  we could identify radio-hypersensitive

individuals,

> should we restrict their travel to high background radiation areas?

> [jjcohen@prodigy.net]

>

>

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