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Re: Low Doses - Seville 1997 - Review
Last month I completed a review of the Proceedings of the Seville Conference for the Health Physics Society. It is expected to be in the upcoming HPS Journal. While I was not aware of K. Becker's review, I came to a similar conclusion (I won't repeat my summary here, you can read it for yourself when you get the journal). The good news is that the IAEA TECDOC with all the articles can be obtained from IAEA for free (see the conference proceedings Forward for further information).
Cynthia G. Jones
Senior Level Advisor for Health Physics
Office of Nuclear Material Safety & Safeguards
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Mail Stop T8-F5
Washington, D.C. 20555
Tel: (301) 415-7853
Fax: (301) 415-5369
cgj@nrc.gov
>>> Chris Davey <cdavey@med.phys.ualberta.ca> 05/05 2:07 PM >>>
Comments on the review of Low Doses of Ionizing Radiation: Biological
Effects and Regulatory Control - Proceedings of a Conference, Seville,
Spain 17-21 November 1997
Published by IAEA, ISBN: 92-0-102698-6, 440 pp (1998), US$110.00
The Review is in Radiation Protection Dosimetry, Vol 82, No. 2, pp.
153-154 (1999) Nuclear Technology Publishing, and is by K. Becker,
formerly with the DIN German Standards Institute, Berlin.
According to Mr. Becker, only one of the graphs in the book indicates a
biopositive radiation effect, and other material which contradicts the LNT
was omitted. I'd like to add to this observation, as I am in possession
of the IAEA bound volume published in November 1997, which is basically a
collection of all the contributed papers (i.e. printed before the
conference) (IAEA-TECDOC-976) and runs to 696 pages. I have a list of 25
papers from this document which relate positively to hormesis, threshold
effects or adaptive response, and they include many graphs. If these
papers were all omitted from the final, 'official' proceedings, it would
indicate censorship on a truly international scale.
I find this very disturbing, and extremely unscientific.
Chris Davey
RSO / LSO Cross Cancer Institute 11560 University Avenue
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 1Z2
(780) 432-8616 fax 432-8615
email: cdavey@med.phys.ualberta.ca
pager number 005, just call (780) 432-8771 and ask for that pager
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