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I wonder how many will sign the petition
below?
The 16-page paper at the recent HPS meeting on
the health effects of the cobalt-60 radiation on the 10,000 residents,
who lived 9-20 years in the 1700 apartments seems quite convincing.
The mean cancer mortality in Taiwan during 1983-2001 was 108.5 persons/100,000
person-years. The cancer mortality of the apartment residents was 3.5
persons/100,000 person-years.
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A petition to HPS Board of Directors on health effects of
radiation:
"NOW BE IT RESOLVED: The Health Physics Society Board of Directors believes such studies (both epidemiological and cell) [on the Taiwan people exposed to Co60 over the years] should be performed and requests the President of the Society to develop a program of actions by the Society the purpose of which is to ensure the studies are performed in a timely manner. The actions may include 1. Requesting the DOE through its Low Dose Radiation Research Program to solicit performance of appropriate cell studies on the exposed Taiwan population, 2.Requesting the US State Department to work with the government of Taiwan to cause the studies to be funded and staffed, 3. Requesting the US Congress to direct the DOE to include such studies (including epidemiological studies) in its Low Dose Research Program, 4.Requesting contacts in Taiwan to assist the government of Taiwan to cooperate in performing the studies, 5.Requesting IAEA to participate in funding the studies, 6.Enlisting the assistance of other scientific organizations (particularly the IRPA) and governments in the world in the funding of the studies, and 7. Publicizing information about observed effects (particularly any beneficial effects) throughout the nuclear industry and elsewhere." |