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Health Risks of Ionizing Radiation: - Clark University

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Contents iii<br />

Rocky Flats .......................................................................................................... 78<br />

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory .......................................................... 78<br />

Savannah River Site ............................................................................................. 79<br />

Los Alamos National Laboratory ......................................................................... 80<br />

Portsmouth Uranium Enrichment Plant ............................................................... 80<br />

The Mound Facility .............................................................................................. 81<br />

Mallinckrodt Chemical Works ............................................................................. 81<br />

Linde Air Products Company Ceramics Plant ..................................................... 81<br />

Feed Material Production Center (Fernald site) ................................................... 82<br />

6.3 UK facilities ................................................................................................................ 82<br />

Sellafield .............................................................................................................. 82<br />

Other UK facilities ............................................................................................... 83<br />

6.4 Multi-site studies ........................................................................................................ 83<br />

Pooled UK data .................................................................................................... 83<br />

Pooled Canadian data ........................................................................................... 84<br />

Pooled US data ..................................................................................................... 85<br />

Pooled international data ...................................................................................... 86<br />

6.5 Discussion ................................................................................................................... 86<br />

Leukemia and multiple myeloma ......................................................................... 87<br />

Solid cancer .......................................................................................................... 88<br />

Female workers .................................................................................................... 89<br />

Age at exposure .................................................................................................... 89<br />

7. MAYAK WORKERS ......................................................................................................... 97<br />

7.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................ 97<br />

7.2 Helath effects .............................................................................................................. 97<br />

Lung cancer .......................................................................................................... 97<br />

Bone cancer and liver cancer ............................................................................... 98<br />

Leukemia and related cancers .............................................................................. 99<br />

Non-cancer disease .............................................................................................. 99<br />

7.3 Summary ..................................................................................................................... 99<br />

8. URANIUM MINERS ....................................................................................................... 103<br />

8.1 Introduction .............................................................................................................. 103<br />

8.2 US studies ................................................................................................................. 104<br />

Navajo miners .................................................................................................... 106<br />

Pathological observations .................................................................................. 106<br />

8.3 Studies <strong>of</strong> miners in other countries ......................................................................... 106<br />

Australia ............................................................................................................. 106<br />

Canada ................................................................................................................ 106<br />

China .................................................................................................................. 107<br />

Czechoslovakia .................................................................................................. 107<br />

France ................................................................................................................. 107<br />

Germany ............................................................................................................. 107<br />

Sweden ............................................................................................................... 107<br />

8.4 Combined estimates <strong>of</strong> risk ...................................................................................... 107<br />

8.5 Discussion ................................................................................................................. 108<br />

Comparisons with residential radon studies ...................................................... 108

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