Publication Laka-library:
Radiation-Induced Cancer from Low-Dose Exposure: An Independent Analysis
| Author | J.Gofman |
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| Date | 1990 |
| Classification | 6.01.4.80/08 (RADIATION - DISCUSSION ON LOW-LEVEL RADIATION) |
| Remarks | Online available at https://ratical.org/radiation/CNR/RIC/ |
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From the publication:
Radiation-Induced Cancer from Low-Dose Exposure: An Independent Analysis ------------------------- The author begins this analysis with an established track-record of correct research, analysis, and forecasting -- both in this field and in his earlier work. (Bio [1] follows table of contents [2].) Within this new book, he shows readers exactly how one arrives at the following conclusions: 1 -- There is no safe dose or dose-rate of ionizing radiation [3] with respect to induction of human cancer. This is proven beyond any reasonable doubt by his combination of human epidemiological data with "track analysis," which reveals how studies at tissue-doses well above zero can nonetheless be studies of the lowest conceivable doses and dose-rates at the level of the cell-nuclei. 2 -- It would be impossible for low total doses of ionizing radiation, received slowly from routine occupational or environmental sources, to be less carcinogenic than the same total doses received acutely. 3 -- There is no support for speculations about any net health benefits from exposure to low-dose ionizing radiation -- in any of the literature cited by proponents of such speculations. The author wishes there were a net benefit, but cannot ignore the overwhelming human evidence of net injury. 4 -- There is very strong support in the direct human evidence for recognizing that the cancer-risk is probably _more_ severe per dose-unit at low doses than at moderate and high doses. 5 -- The cancer risk-estimates for acute-low and for slow-low exposures, provided in reports by the quasi-official radiation committees, are still seriously too low -- even though the committees have recently raised some of their estimates by 3-to-15 times. 6 -- Ionizing radiation may even turn out to be the _most_ important single carcinogen to which large numbers of humans are actually exposed. 7 -- Proposals to exclude slow-low population exposures from risk-benefit analyses, and to exclude a large share of radioactive waste from any regulation at all, are based on two mistakes: (A) The erroneous idea that there may be some safe dose or dose-rate, and (B) the large underestimates of the magnitude of the risk from slow-low doses. 8 -- Future insights in this field are imperiled by the practice of retroactively altering the key database, and of accepting unverifiable data and analyses from nations with world-class records of distorting truth in the service of policy. 9 -- The handling of the low-dose radiation issue, both scientifically and socially, can be watched as the "canary" with respect to additional toxic agents -- whose _aggregate_ impact on human health may become enormous. Links: ------ [1] https://ratical.org/radiation/CNR/RIC/AboutAuthF.html [2] https://ratical.org/radiation/CNR/RIC/contentsF.html [3] https://ratical.org/radiation/CNR/RIC/contentsF.html#section5
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