Fallout blamed for thyroid cancer -Reply -Reply -Reply

[Michael S Ford <MFORD@pantex.com>]

Charlie,

Thanks for your review of the calcs.

When you state that the numbers that you come up with are
relatively close to the values stated in the report, are you referring to
dose estimates or risk estimates?

If you are referring to dose estimates, are these population doses,
(average) individual doses, or some other type of dose category?

If you are referring to risk estimates, are they based on population
(i.e., collective) doses or average individual doses?

You can probably see where I'm going on this... 'definitely not in
favor risk estimates based on collective dose based on small
individual doses and very large populations.

v/r
Michael
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