Thursday, March 10, 2016

China & India

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"In China, a meticulous study measured the radon level for 1 year in the houses of several hundred women with lung cancers and in homes...
Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Brazil

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No unusual congenital abnormalities, stillbirths, or changes in live births could be found in a Brazilian study of 44,000 pregnancies, eve...
Tuesday, March 8, 2016

United States

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Sources of significant background radiation in the United States are (1) terrestrial sources, such as granite and certain other types of roc...
Monday, March 7, 2016

Japan

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Spring waters have often been found to have significant amounts of dissolved radon. This seems particularly true at springs that are conside...
Sunday, March 6, 2016

India

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Indian researchers K.S.V. Nambi and S.D. Soman collected an analyzed cancer mortality data from a number of state hospitals along with the a...
Saturday, March 5, 2016

China

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There are two geographical areas involved in both of the following investigations. The "Low Background" areas has a background rat...
Friday, March 4, 2016

"Why Don't They Evacuate Norway?"

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"Why don't they evacuate Norway?" - a question by UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) Member ...
Thursday, March 3, 2016

I Say There, Old Chap

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A final study on weapons workers and nuclear power workers comes from England's National Radiological Protection Board. The study, invol...
Wednesday, March 2, 2016

The Most Toxic Substance on Earth?

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One of the noisiest guns in the anti-nuclear arsenal has been the cultivated fear of plutonium. "The most toxic substance known to man,...
Tuesday, March 1, 2016

American Weapons Plant Workers

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In the first of several planned efforts to combine data on workers at all Department of Energy facilities, this 1989 study was supervised by...
Monday, February 29, 2016

Leukemia in Male Employees of Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd.

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A later study by M.A. Gribbin et al. examined leukemia mortality of 9,997 male employees of Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd., with an average e...
Sunday, February 28, 2016

On to Ontario

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In a 1983 study by J.D. Abbatt et al., the standard mortality ratios (SMRs) of 4,000 nuclear workers were compared with those of 21,000 unex...
Saturday, February 27, 2016

Do Nuclear Workers Glow in the Dark?

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Mortality study of plutonium workers at Rocky Flats involving 7,112 workers from 1952 to 1979 gave cancer deaths at 64% of the expected numb...
Friday, February 26, 2016

All Cancer Mortality in A-Bomb Survivors

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The "all cancer mortality" curve of Figure 16, taken from the work of H. Kato, et al. [Kato, H., et al. Dose-response analysis amo...
Thursday, February 25, 2016

Leukemia Mortality Among Survivors

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Leukemia is a family of cancer involving the white blood cells. With the exception of lymphocytic leukemia - which is often erroneously incl...
Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Longevity of Nagasaki Survivors

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In an earlier study, Mine had compared the observed  deaths of the survivors with the expected  number and found all age groups from forty-f...
Tuesday, February 23, 2016

They Lived to Tell About It

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The A-bomb survivors are living longer than the controls despite the 400 radiation-induced cancer deaths.  - Professor John Cameron, Univers...
Monday, February 22, 2016

Very Strange - But I Don't Make the Data; I Just Report Them

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The next figure is about mice that were not subjected to radiation but who had fathers that had been exposed prior to becoming a mouse-paren...
Sunday, February 21, 2016

Radio-Resistance in Mice Previously Exposed to Hormetic Levels

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We are aware that inoculations strengthen the immune system by mildly stressing it and causing antibodies to arise that fight any further in...