[ RadSafe ] U.S. Nuclear Power Industry Workers Study - Healthy Worker Effect

[John Jacobus]

Susan,
Thanks the link.

I noticed this comment regarding the healthy worker
effect.  I guess it implies that it is not just due to
radiation, but working for DOE.  So, can one conclude
there is really a "healthy worker effect?"

"The healthy worker effect is observed among workers
who were badged and among those who were not badged
for external radiation exposures. The SMR
(observed/expected X 100) for all causes of death
combined is 78 for unbadged and 69 for badged workers.
. . ." (page 12 of PDF file)

I am not surprised when they say high doses result in
higher leukemia, breast and hemotological cancers.

I will have to plow my way through it when I get more
time.  (Gee! Over 400 pages!)



--- Susan Gawarecki <loc at icx.net> wrote:
> The report "Mortality Among Female Nuclear Weapons
> Workers" can be 
> downloaded at
> http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/pdfs/2001-133g17.pdf . 
> When you 
> get past the summary, which does its best to
> highlight findings of harm, 
> you will see that there is a strong "healthy worker"
> effect even in the 
> monitored workers.  The most harmful effect seems to
> be the mental 
> stress of working for DOE (my conclusion, not
> theirs).
> 
> Other energy-related studies can be found at
> 
> http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/2001-133g.html
> 
> 
> Susan Gawarecki
> 
> John Jacobus wrote:
> 
> >Ahh, yes.  Another mega-study.  If you can give me
> any
> >information, I will try and track it down.  Thanks.
> >  
> >
> 
> 

+++++++++++++++++++
"Embarrassed, obscure and feeble sentences are generally, if not always, the result of embarrassed, obscure and feeble thought."
Hugh Blair, 1783

-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com


		
__________________________________ 
Do you Yahoo!? 
Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site!
http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/