Re: Rocketdyne Worker Health Study

[Muckerheide <muckerheide@mediaone.net>]

Phil Rutherford wrote:
>
> For those of you with a continuing interest in radiation worker
> epidemiology studies, the following web site contains information on
> the recent Rocketdyne Worker Health Study.
> 
> http://home.earthlink.net/~pdrutherford/epistudy.html

Excellent treatment. Congratulations. You should include the critical review
statements by Drs. Raabe and Pollycove (presented at the CALRAD meeting?)

As a note on your comparison of the 'internal dose' to natural radon (to show
that the internal dose is ~0.5% of the total) you use 2 mSv as the radon dose.
It would seem more appropriate to use the lung dose rather than the whole-body
dose equivalent, about 25 mSv?

Thanks.

Regards, Jim Muckerheide
muckerheide@mediaone.net
Radiation, Science, and Health
  
> I am aware that the study generated much RadSafe traffic when it was
> released.  Unfortunately, since my primary focus at that time was
> employee and community response, I was not able to devote the time to
> monitor or respond to RadSafe comments.
> 
> I am currently collecting any formal (or informal) published peer
> reviews/critiques of the study which may have been prepared by
> organizations, independent of Rocketdyne.
> 
> If anyone out there has any formal reviews (or informal comments)
> please
> email me at my Boeing email address below or post on RadSafe.
> 
> Any reviews and/or comments may be further published and attributed to
> their authors.
> 
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