Stewart Article

["R. William Field" <bill-field@uiowa.edu>]

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Flawed radiation data puts old, kids at risk?

Children and old people may be exposed to damaging levels of
radiation from nuclear plants because of flawed data used to set
safety limits, New Scientist magazine said Wednesday. A study by
epidemiologist Alice Stewart showed the very young and the elderly
were more sensitive to radiation damage than experts realized.
Regulatory agencies estimate risks of exposure to radiation by using
rates comparing cancer among people living in Nagasaki and Hiroshima
in 1950, five years after the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on them, and
people from other Japanese cities. Stewart said children and old
people were under-represented among the survivors used in the data.


See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2553083802-62b


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