Re[2]: Stewart Article

[Ruth Weiner <rfweine@sandia.gov>]

     Can't resist: if cancer latencies are 10 to 30 years, how can one tell 
     if "old people" are more susceptible?  How old? And how can a 
     particular low-level exposure be separated from cumulative lifetime 
     exposure?  This is also a flaw in the Rocketdyne study?
     
     Clearly only my own opinion.
     
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     Subject: Re: Stewart Article
     Author:  blc+@pitt.edu at hubsmtp
     Date:    2/26/98 9:15 AM
     
     
     What does it mean to say that children and old people were
undr-represented? Data are given as a function of age at the time of the 
bomb, so each age group is effectively a separate study. It doesn't matter 
what number of people there were in each age group.
     
Bernard L. Cohen
Physics Dept.
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
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e-mail: blc+@pitt.edu
     
     
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, R. William Field wrote:
     
> Radsafers,
>
> Have you seen this article?
>
> 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 
>
>
> Bill-field@uiowa.edu
>