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@MaryW it is a different twist on the same short sighted mentality we see elsewhere. They are so absorbed with politics and business they forget the engine for both is a healthy and prosperous population. People who are doing well buy things, pay taxes and make new contributions to society.

Digging all the way through the study and it doesn't give a clear exposure vs. outcome. Bah!

@elainekirk oh this is just driving me crazy. You know someone has the data on internal exposure like the external exposure tables. Of course finding that is impossible. I found some references to internal exposure via cancer treatment but that isn't inhaled so likely acts differently.

This might help? Oak Ridge made a radiation exposure calculation software www.wise-uranium.org

ALL of oak ridge's various dose etc software programs here ordose.ornl.gov

The four groups ranged from those who were
not exposed at all to those receiving a maximum dose of 30 millisieverts or more. A comparison of the adjusted rate-ratios for cancers
among these groups showed that the workers who received the highest doses died at a substantially higher rate from leukemias and lymphomas than did those who were not exposed. The same relationship was true for workers who died from cancers of the mouth,
throat, esophagus, and stomach. Substantiating these observations
was the fact that workers in the zero-dose range had the lowest rates
of death and those within the two intermediate dose ranges had progressively higher rates of death with increasing dose. Again, this was
true both for leukemias and lymphomas and for cancers of the
mouth, throat, esophagus, and stomach. The researchers also examined lung, bladder, kidney, and prostate cancer incidence, but found
no elevations in mortality rates. Although the link to increased
leukemias and lymphomas had been reported in two earlier studies,
the relationship to mouth, throat, and esophagus cancers had not
previously been reported for workers exposed to internally deposited
radionuclides in this low-dose range.
Caveats added due to the smaller study group. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

If anyone with journal access can find this study even if it is in Russian it would be useful [Retrospective diagnosis of radiation inhalation lesions of the bronchial mucosa in clean-up personnel after the nuclear accident at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor using the micronucleus test].
[Article in Russian]
Lisochkin BG, Kravtsov VIu, Rybachenko VV.
Source
I.P.Pavlov Research Institute of Pulmonology, Sankt-Petersburg Medical University, 197022, St-Petersburg.

Feldheim wind farm, local govt gets revenue from the windfarm. Maybe this is an idea for municipalities wanting to make up for nuclear money? p.twipple.jp

Based on our screening calculations, doses to many workers are likely to have exceeded the dose limit which was then about 15 rem per year. This chart [slide #1] shows the cumulative lung dose per worker as it relates to the number of months exposed (i.e. on the job), and also to different multiples of the then-prevailing Maximum Allowable Concentration (MAC) of uranium in the air. It shows that the more months a worker was exposed, the higher the cumulative lung dose, and the higher the level of uranium in the workplace air (i.e. the higher the number of multiples of MAC), the higher the dose.

The data and our calculations suggest that the highest exposed workers had a high probability of dying from cancer as a result of the exposure. The estimated mean lung dose in the highest exposure category (8,400 rem) would be equivalent to an effective dose (or "whole body" dose) of approximately 1,000 rem. Using the International Council for Radiation Protection (ICRP) cancer risk factor of 0.04%, this corresponds to about a 40% risk of dying from cancer. This is a 200 percent increase in fatal cancer risk compared to unexposed persons. 15 rem = 150 millisieverts

www.ieer.org

good find

My how things have changed. Senator Obama pushed for a new radiation protection standard. Fast forward to this year the US govt acts like Fuku is a non issue for the US www.ieer.org

Reactors nearing cold shutdown

Japan may announce this month that reactors at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have reached a state of cold shutdown.

The government and Tokyo Electric Power Company, the operator of the plant say the phase could be achieved on December 16th at the earliest. Before that, nuclear experts must first assess mid-term safety measures proposed by the utility.

The government will then divide evacuation areas around the plant into 3 zones based on radiation levels, and come up with support measures for each district.

For an area with high radiation levels where residents are unlikely to return soon, the government will consider buying land from owners.

In a zone where evacuation orders are expected to continue for a set period of time, the government will implement decontamination efforts and repair roads.

For an area with relatively-low radiation levels, focus will be on helping factories resume operation and setting up medical facilities. Decontamination and infrastructure projects will also be carried out.

Saturday, December 03, 2011 07:24 +0900 (JST)
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@elainekirk good evening

If any area is below their idea of bad radiation the govt will do everything to force them to go back

@Edano it is farcical , has been throughout

File this under irony
Japan submitted a resolution adopted by the UN's nuclear disarmament
December 03, 28 minutes 9:00
Japan has submitted a draft resolution to UN General Assembly expressed concern about North Korea's nuclear disarmament and the overall commitment to nuclear weapons, the resolution was adopted by majority vote.
In the General Assembly, two days were made of the resolution submitted by the national vote over the issue of disarmament. Of these, the draft resolution submitted by Japan, for the abolition of nuclear weapons overall, with commitment to the international community to act together, and expressed concern over the construction of light water reactors and uranium enrichment program by North Korea . In the vote, as well as North Korea is opposed by China, Iran, and Israel is now in 11 countries that abstained, 169 countries agreed that a resolution was adopted by majority vote. The resolution was adopted, the North Korean ambassador to the UN Shinsonho "peaceful use of nuclear country's legitimate rights," and repeated the claim that nuclear development for peaceful purposes only that. The Japanese government, the resolution has been clearly shown that those seeking to abandon the idea of ​​international community in the North Korean nuclear program.
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