RE: radium dial painters

[rkathren@tricity.wsu.edu (Ron L. Kathren)]

There is a vast body of literature re the radium dial painters.  The curve
you cite from Stannard is probably one that Robley Evans published some
years ago.  You might start with the excellent book "Radium in Humans" by R.
E. Rowland which was published in 1994 as ANL/ER-3.

Ron Kathren

At 03:44 PM 7/28/98 -0500, Reynolds, Harold wrote:
>Try BEIR V, Health Risks of Radon and Other Internally Deposited Alpha
>Emitters, National Academy Press
>
>Harry Reynolds
>Harold.Reynolds@RFETS.gov
>303.966.2708
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mike McNaughton [SMTP:mcnaught%lanl.gov@inet.rfets.gov]
> Sent:	Tuesday, July 28, 1998 2:12 PM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	radium dial painters
> 
> Dear RadSafers
> 
> how much dose did the radium dial painters receive (circa 1925)? I
> know
> this isn't a simple question. I have a graph attributed to J. Newell
> Stannard which indicates that for cumulative doses  of "1,000" or
> less,
> there were no cancers; but the graph has no units, e.g., this might be
> 1,000 rad CEDE, or local tissue dose, etc.
> 
> Are there any references on the web with quantitative data?
> 
> thank you, mike
> 
> "Shlala gashle" (Zulu greeting, meaning "Stay safe")
> mike (mcnaught@LANL.GOV)
> 
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