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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2002, Pages

  Moore, LeRoy ^a  

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EID: 4043061111     PISSN: 00963402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2968/058003008     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Karl Z. Morgan, quoted in Robert Del Tredici, At Work in the Fields of the Bomb (New York: Harper & Row, 1987), pp. 132-33.
2. the Swedish radiologist R. M. Sievert told an international group in 1950 that "there is no known tolerance level for radiation." Quoted in Rosalie Bertell, No Immediate Danger (London: The Women's Press, 1985), p. 38.
3. J. Samuel Walker, Permissible Dose: A History of Radiation Protection in the Twentieth Century (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), pp. 10-11.
4. Morgan in Del Tredici, pp. 133-34.
5. Karl Z. Morgan and Ken M. Peterson, The Angry Genie: One Man's Walk through the Nuclear Age (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), pp. 145, 152.
6. A February 25, 1999, letter to the author from Dr. Charles B. Meinhold, then president of NCRP, justifies the LNT approach on the grounds that it represents majority "scientific opinion" and avoids the threshold and supra-linear extremes.
7. See H. Jack Geiger et al., Dead Reckoning: A Critical Review of the Department of Energy's Epidemiologic Research (Washington, D.C.: Physicians for Social Responsibility, 1992), p. 32.
8. Sen. Pete V. Domenici, "A New Nuclear Paradigm, " speech at Harvard University, October 31, 1997 (www.senate.gov/domenici/nuclear/harvard).
9. Sen. Pete V. Domenici, speech to National Academy of Engineering Symposium, "Nuclear Power: The Option for the 21st Century, " Irvine, California, February 9, 2001.
10. "Radiation Risk in Perspective, " Position Statement of the Health Physics Society, January 1996, available at www.hps.org.