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Health Effects of Exposure to Low-levels of ionizing radiation (1981)

Auteur	Alice Stewart
Datum	juni 1981
Classificatie	6.01.4.80/36 (STRALING - LAGE STRALINGDOSES DISCUSSIE)
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INTRODUCTION

To understand why a large-scale nuclear energy programme is viewed with alarm
by environmentalists and other persons directly concerned with maintaining and
improving public health standards, it is necessary to have some understanding of
the physical properties of ionizing radiations and their biological effects. There are
wide areas of uncertainty between biological and health effects. Therefore it is also
necessary to have same familiarity with the branch of medicine whose direct concern
is the computation of risk estimates for populations exposed to various hazards
(epidemiology). Finally, the particular type of damage to single cells which is so
easily caused by radiation (mutation) can be caused in other ways and no-one fully
understands the processes which link the mutations with three well-established
effects, namely, cancers, foetal deformities and inherited anomalies. Therefore
whatever the outcome of the present controversy about the health risks of exposure
to low level radiation, it is important to make the maximum use of existing records
(and existing systems for linking present records with future events) and to realise
that these records and the uses to which they can be put have a direct bearing on the
universally important subjects of cancer causation and child health.

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