RE: The value(?) of the Nuclear Shipyard Workers Study (NSWS)

["Neil, David M" <neildm@id.doe.gov>]

More than likely true, but an inland facility can't be ruled out _a priori_.

Newport News Shipbuilding had a (non-nuclear) facility about half a mile

from where I grew up - about 500 -600 miles from the coast, in the

Appalachian Mountains near Asheville NC.



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

From: Kai Kaletsch [mailto:eic@shaw.ca]

Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 10:21 PM

To: Strom, Daniel J; RADSAFE Listserver (E-mail)

Subject: Re: The value(?) of the Nuclear Shipyard Workers Study (NSWS)





Dan,



I would be willing to bet a dollar that there are relatively few nuclear

shipyards in Arizona or in the other low cancer plains states shown in:

http://www.dceg.cancer.gov/cgi-bin/atlas/mapview2?direct=acccwm70

If that is the case and most of the shipyards are in fact in the high cancer

coastal regions, then an SMR of 1.0 would actually show a healthy worker

effect. The mortality ratio should not be compared to a national average,

but rather to the regional rates.



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