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STAR Symposium, Sept. 26-27.
September 9, 1998
Davis, CA
Dear RadSafers:
Below is the program for the Symposium entitled "Recent Studies of Low
Level Radiation and Implications for Medicine and the Nuclear Industry"
which will be held on Saturday and Sunday, September 26 & 27, at the New
York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Registration
for non-physicians is $100.
This Symposium has been organized by the STAR Foundation ("Standing for
Truth About Radiation", don't we all?). However, the STAR Foundation is an
antinuclear organization set up to demand the closing of Brookhaven
National Laboratory because of the supposed radiation risks it poses to the
residents of Long Island. The STAR Foundation's web page title is
http://www.noradiation.org so their position is clear. The organizers are
dedicating this meeting to honor Karl Z. Morgan, the first President of the
Health Physics Society.
As you see from the program, this meeting will involve significant
contrasts among the speakers on the subject of risks from low level
radiation. I will be presenting the case for non-linear dose-response
relationships that display an effective threshold at low doses. I will also
be presenting and explaining the Health Physics Society position paper on
"Radiation Risk in Perspective".
If you live in the NYC area, please consider attending this meeting and
contributing to the questions, comments, and discussion. Otherwise, the
anti's may drown out the "Truth About Radiation".
The STAR Foundation can be reached at 516-324-0655, P.O. Box 4206,
Easthampton, NY 11937.
Also, if you can give me a hint about the message that I should expect from
Eric Wright, Carrie Clark, Richard Clapp, Thurman Wenzl, Arjun Makhijani,
Steve Frishman, Don Hancock, Diane D'Arrigo, Mary Olson, William Arkin,
Jonathan Schell, or Admiral Gene Carroll, PLEASE E-MAIL THE INFORMATION TO ME.
Thanks for your help...
Otto
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Symposium:
"Recent Studies of Low-Level Radiation
and Implications for Medicine and the Nuclear Industry"
A Symposium entitled, "Recent Studies of Low-Level Radiation and
Implications for Medicine and the Nuclear Industries," will be held at the
New York Academy of Medicine in New York on the weekend of September 26 and
27, 1998. This promises to be an important medical event because this new
data on low-level radiation is making obsolete the radiation standards
derived from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki studies.
A sponsor of the event is the Department of Preventive Medicine and
Community Health at the New Jersey Medical School. The symposium has been
organized by a group called "Standing for Truth About Radiation," (STAR),
which is based on Long Island in New York. STAR's Vice-President is Helen
Caldicott, M.D., the Founding President of Physicians for Social
Responsibility, the group that organized the original symposia on the
Medical Consequences of Nuclear War in the 1980s.
The 2-day program will include talks by respected epidemiologists,
physicians, scientists, and others, including Alice Stewart, Steven Wing,
Greg Wilkinson, Richard Clapp, Tony Mazzochi, Arjun Makhijani, Steve
Frishman, Diane D'Arrigo, Mary Olson, Jonathon Schell, and Admiral Gene
Carroll. The Symposium will provide a forum for open debate and discussion,
and possibly some resolution of the current regulatory dilemma.
There will be a reception on the evening of Saturday, the 26th.
Please contact STAR below for more information.
E-mail: Info@noradiation.org
Standing for Truth About Radiation
PO Box 4206
Easthampton, NY 11937
Phone: (516)324-0655
Fax: (516)324-2203
Website: www.noradiaton.org
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SYMPOSIUM
Recent Studies of Low-Level Radiation and Implications
for Medicine and the Nuclear Industry
PROGRAM
Saturday, September 26, 1998
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Registration.
9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Welcome, Moderator, Donald Louria, M.D., Professor
and Chair, Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, New
Jersey Medical School. "Potential Medical Consequences of Food Irradiation."
9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Alice Stewart, M.D., FRCP, Department of Public
Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham. "A Bomb Survivor:
Reassessment of the Radiation Hazard."
10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Hal Morgenstern, Ph.D., Professor of Epidemiology,
UCLA School of Public Health. "Report of the Rocketdyne/Atomic Workers,
Incidence of Malignancies."
10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Morning Tea.
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Eric Wright, Medical Research Council at Harwell,
Oxfordshire. "Low-Dose Radiation and Genetic Damage."
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Steve Wing, Associate Professor, and David
Richardson, Post Doctoral Research Assistant, Department of Epidemiology,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. "Radiation and Mortality among
US Department of Energy Workers, with particular reference to Current
Standards."
12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. Panel Discussion.
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch.
1:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. Carrie Clark, Doctoral Candidate in History, SUNY
Stony Brook. "Historical Perspectives on the Nuclear Weapons and Power
Industries, with Particular Reference to Radiation Exposures."
1:45 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. Jack Fix, Epidemiologist, Pacific Northwest National
Lab. "Dosimetry Program at Hanford, Radiation Standards and National
Radiation Registry."
2:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Greg Wilkinson, Professor of Epidemiology, University
of Buffalo. "Mutagenic and Carcinogenic Effects of Alpha Radiation."
2:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Afternoon Tea.
3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Otto Raabe, President, Health Physics Society,
Institute of Toxicology & Environmental Health. "Three dimensional Models
of Radiation Risk."
3:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Richard Clapp, Associate Professor, Environmental
Health, Boston University, School of Public Health, Environmental Health
Division. "Incidence of Malignancy in Populations Adjacent to the Pilgrim
Nuclear Reactor."
4:15 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. Myron Pollycove, M.D. Professor Emeritus of
Laboratory Medicine and Radiology, University of California School of
Medicine, San Francisco, and Visiting Medical Fellow, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Human Biology. "Epidemiology and Low-Dose Radiation."
4:45 p.m. - 5:15 p.m Tony Mazzochi, Presidential Assistant, Oil, Chemical
and Atomic Workers. Thurman Wenzl, Research Industrial Hygienist, NIOSH.
"Impact of Recent Radiation Research on Adequacy of Standards and
Guidelines."
5:15 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Panel Discussion
PROGRAM
Sunday, September 27, 1998
9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Moderator, Helen Caldicott, M.D., President Emeritus,
Physicians for Social Responsibility. "Fallout Studies."
9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Arjun Makhijani, President of Institute for Energy
and Environmental Research. "Environmental Effects of Nuclear Weapons
Production and Testing."
10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Bernie Goldstein, Chair, Environmental and
Community Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. "CRESP: A
Stakeholder Based Approach to Risk Assessment for Radionuclide
Contamination at DOE Sites."
10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Morning Tea.
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Marvin Resnikoff, Ph.D., Senior Associate
Radioactive Waste Management Associates. "Mobile Chernobyl, Casks
Temperatures, Volatility and Isotopes."
11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Steve Frishman, Geologist, Technical Policy
Coordinator, Nevada Agency on Nuclear Projects. "Political and Technical
Strategies re: Yucca Mountain." Don Hancock, Director Nuclear Waste Safety
Program, Southwest Research and Information Institute, Albuquerque.
"Carlsbad and Transuranic Waste."
12:15 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Diane D'Arrigo, Nuclear Information and Resource
Service (NIRS). "Below Regulatory Concern and Radioactive Metal Recycling."
Mary Olson, Nuclear Information and Resource Service. "MOX Fuel and Food
Irradiation."
1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Panel Discussion.
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Lunch.
2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. William Arkin, Consultant to the Natural Resources
Defense Council. "Post Cold War Nuclear Weapons, Stewardship and
Counterproliferation."
3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Jonathan Schell, Author, The Fate Of the Earth. "The
Case for Abolition."
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Afternoon Tea.
4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Admiral Gene Carroll, Deputy Director, Center for
Defense Information. "The Military Route to Abolition of Nuclear Weapons."
4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Helen Caldicott, M.D., President Emeritus, Physicians
for Social Responsibility. Summary and Closing.
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Prof. Otto G. Raabe, Ph.D., CHP
Institute of Toxicology & Environmental Health (ITEH)
(Street address: Old Davis Road)
University of California, Davis, CA 95616
Phone: 530-752-7754 FAX: 530-758-6140
E-mail ograabe@ucdavis.edu
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