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Saturday, October 27, 2012

The One Million Rad Worker Study

Here's a website devoted to the One Million Worker Study (OMWS) which aims to discern the health effects of chronic doses of low level radiation to U.S. populations.  This is opposed to the Japanese a-bomb survivor study which studied the health effects of acute doses to a war-torn Japanese population. The U.S. populations received relatively high cumulative radiation doses, but they were delivered over many years and up to 70 years ago.  The large numbers and broad ranges should provide the OMWS with higher statistical power than the a-bomb survivor study (or any other study to date). The OMWS also considers doses from internal contamination.

Expect first results in 2016.

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