Re: LNT Debate

[chatho@roadrunner.com (Charles Thomas)]

Jamie:

Dr. Pollycove has taken part (significant part) in the Low-level Radiation
Health Effects sessions Jim Muckerheide has organized at national ANS
meetings.  He received the Radiation Cenntenial Award at the last ANS
meeting.  (thatr is not the exact name of the award but it is one held in
honor of the 100th anniversary of the discovery of x=-rays)



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>The following was obtained from electronic newspaper here at Sandia.
>Any Comments!
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>NRC medical fellow Dr. Myron Pollycove is sparking debate with his contention 
>that exposure to low levels of radiation is not harmful, and is pushing for a 
>complete overhaul of almost 50 years of policy on radiation regulation. 
>Pollycove and other like-minded health physicists assert there is no 
>experimental evidence for a linear, no-threshold dose-response relationship
>for radiation induced cancer in the low-dose, low-dose-rate region.
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>
>Jamie Mallon 
>jmallo@sandia.gov
>505-844-8287
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