Re: irradiation of fathers etc

[muckerheide@highway1.com (James Muckerheide)]

R.Ryder@dl.ac.uk wrote:
> 
> This was a reference to the Gardner Report. The full reference is Gardner MJ
> et al, Results of a case control study of leukaemia and lymphoma among young
> people near Sellafield nuclear plant in West Cumbria. BMJ,300, pp429-434
> (1990). The plant refered to is mainly fuel reprocessing.
> 
> Its findings caused a major furore at the time.
> 
> The relevant associations were:
> 
> Correlation                             Excess Risk
>                                    Area Local
> 
> Father worked at Sellafield                  2.8  1.4
> Father was radiation worker before conception          1.7  1.4
> Radiiation worker at conception                   3.1  2.4
> Fathers lifetime dose > 100 mSv                   6.2  8.4
> Fathers dose > 10 mSv in 6 months before conception    7.2  8.2
> 
> As I said in my other post, the last correaltion is not now believed.
> 
> Roy Ryder
> 
> Daresbury Laboratory
> UK

Do you know the refs to the papers that responded to this analysis?

Thanks.

Regards, Jim Muckerheide
jmuckerheide@delphi.com