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[carol marcus <csmarcus@ucla.edu>]

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>environmental links to breast cancer.  I was wondering if anyone could
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>around nuclear power plants and nuclear waste sites. Any information
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Dear Amanda:

Pick another research project.  You're dead wrong.  Doses of radiation much,
much higher than anyone gets from a nuclear power plant have been shown to
DECREASE breast cancer (the Canadian breast cancer study).  Only moderate to
high doses increase it.  You obviously don't know anything about nuclear
power plants, but the MAXIMUM yearly radiation dose to a member of the
public is 25 mrem.  The average background radiation in the USA is 300 mrem
per year; it is around 500 mrem in Denver, 600-700 mrem in Colorado ski
areas, and about 900 mrem per year in Copper City, Colo.  You get 1 mrem for
every 1000 miles or so flown in an airplane. 

Pick another research project.  

Ciao, Carol

Carol S. Marcus, Ph.D., M.D.
<csmarcus@ucla.edu>

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