[ RadSafe ] " Nuclear workers: low radiation dose linked tosmall increased r isk of cancer "

[Muckerheide, James]

Well you can't win if you let them have the last (only) word.  

Why didn't/don't the nuclear industries (i.e., your companies) clarify that,
e.g., 

- the US nuclear workers should be compared to comparable non-nuclear
workers, 

- the "HWE" can't result in 0.6 SMR vs. the general population, 

- workers in "hazardous industries" with carcinogens have cancers at greater
than general public SMRs, 

- science reviews, including a formal review of the science in Canada for
worker compensation, that included some of the same "world-renown" epi people
that now misrepresent the data, showed that cancer can have little HWE
because latency and screening for employment work against having bias in
hiring and continuing employment.

Regards, Jim Muckerheide


-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl on behalf of Sandy Perle
Sent: Tue 6/28/2005 5:46 PM
To: Radsafe (E-mail); Franta, Jaroslav
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] " Nuclear workers: low radiation dose linked tosmall
increased r isk of cancer "
 
On 28 Jun 2005 at 16:39, Franta, Jaroslav wrote:

> How accurate is this media story about the published study ?
> >From what I've seen of individual country studies (which contributed
> >to this
> global compilation, I believe), the cancer rates of nuclear workers is
> lower than that of the public in general -- although age adjustment &
> other factors need to be factored in.....

Other studies in the US power reactor population show the opposite. 
When the probablilty is shown to be lower than for the general 
public, the term "healthy worker effect" is thrown out. You can't 
win!
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