Fear of radiation/External Links
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- Sacks, B., Meyerson, G. & Siegel, J.A. Epidemiology Without Biology: False Paradigms, Unfounded Assumptions, and Specious Statistics in Radiation Science (with Commentaries by Inge Schmitz-Feuerhake and Christopher Busby and a Reply by the Authors). Biological Theory 11, 69–101 (2016). [1]
- Chapter 6 "Fear of radiation, cancer, health, ALARA, cost" in Electrifying our World, Robert Hargraves (2021) a good summary of studies on the health effects of low-level radiation.
- https://electrifyingourworld.com/ - Website of Dr. Robert Hargraves, see section 6. Fear of radiation, cancer, health, ALARA, cost.
- https://therationalview.podbean.com/e/summary-of-the-linear-no-threshold-controversy - The LNT controversy. Dr. Allan Scott interviews thyroid cancer expert Professor Geraldine Thomas of Imperial College London, Dr. Edwin Lyman, Director of Nuclear Power Safety at the Union of Concerned Scientists, radiation dosimetry expert Dr. Blake Walters of Canada's National Research Council, and nuclear accident expert Dr. Philip Thomas, Professor of Risk Management at University of Bristol.
- Sponsler, R. and Cameron, J.R. (2005) 'Nuclear shipyard worker study (1980–1988): a large cohort exposed to low-dose-rate gamma radiation’, Int. J. Low Radiation, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp.463–478. "The high-dose workers demonstrated significantly lower circulatory, respiratory, and all-cause mortality than did unexposed workers. Mortality from all cancers combined was also lower in the exposed cohort."
- Moss, D. (2013) 'An Analysis of Cancer Incidence in Taiwan Apartment Residents Subjected to Low Dose Radiation' interesting because this analysis of the data contradicts what the original authors concluded.
- Evans, R.D. (1974) 'Radium in Man', Health Physics, Vol. 27, No. 5, pp.497-510. "At cumulative dosages below the order of 1000 skeletal average rads no clinically significant radiobiological injury has yet been observed in the M.I.T. series over a time span of 40–50 yr in more than 500 persons."
For a more complete discussion of radiation fear, its effect on public policy, and how radiation damage to our DNA is actually repaired, see Section 6 of ElectrifyingOurWorld.com by Robert Hargraves, a founder of ThorCon.[1]
For a review of the history of the LNT controversy, see The Two Lies that Killed Nuclear Power, Jack Devanney, Principle Engineer, ThorCon USA, 2022.[2] and Devanney's book Why Nuclear Power Has Been A Flop, which has more detail and references to reliable sources.
For a proposal to replace LNT with SNT, a more accurate model of the harm caused by radiation exposure, see Jack Devanney's SNT for Dummies [3]
For a review of the data underlying the LNT controversy, see Risk of low-dose radiation and the BEIR VII report: A critical review of what it does and doesn’t say.[4]
For the latest and most thorough review, see the UNSCEAR 2019 Report from the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation.[5]
- ↑ ElectrifyingOurWorld.com by Robert Hargraves; see Section 6 on radiation fear and its impact on public policy and nuclear power; last access 12/27/2022.
- ↑ The Two Lies that Killed Nuclear Power, Jack Devanney, ThorCon USA, 2022; last access 12/27/2022.
- ↑ SNT for Dummies, Jack Devanney, Gordian Knot News, last access 01/06/2024.
- ↑ Risk of low-dose radiation and the BEIR VII report: A critical review of what it does and doesn’t say Michael K. O’Connor, Physica Medica 43 (2017) 153-158; last access 12/27/2022.
- ↑ UNSCEAR 2019 Report; last access 12/27/2022.