Highly Recommended for BRAWN team

If you have not read this study/analysis from Clark University.

It is the most comprehensive overview of risk studies I have found yet.

It incorporates the results of many peer-reviewed studies in its body and tables etc..

It also discussses at length the interesting question of supralinear risk ratios and homeostasis and basically concludes that the linear model works best in general but that some cancers and illnesses fit better into the other models when you see the results (ie some cancers have higher incidence at lower rates of exposure while some risk may be lowered at the lowest rates of exposure then rise at higher exposures). There is another model which concaves high at low and high exposures but is more linear at moderate exposures.

There is a lot of info in this report on fetuses and even on exposure of sperm/ovaries preconception which shows an increase of risk if one is exposed to ionizing radiation shortly before conception occurs.

In any case, I offer this as material for the BRAWN team to consider as it is quite comprehensive and objective.

I also recommend others who are concerned take a look at it as it has an extensive section on studies of those who live downwind or near nuclear facilities in the US and elsewhere which have had leaks and/or routine emissions of radionuclides such as strontium 90.

I would love to know what the BRAWN team members think about this report and if they find it might be useful for others to get a better handle on the present disaster and future options for energy and health and survival as a species vis a vis nuclear energy.

http://www.seri-us.org/sites/default/files/EpiOverview.pdf

the url for the Clark study

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Very informative study

Thank you for posting it. I'm one of those who have been trying to get a handle on cumulative risk and now wondering if we are anywhere near approaching the 1.0 mSV level where studies have shown significant excess childhood cancer risk. A bit math-challenged at the moment.

Hey Joseph. We can't tell

Hey Joseph. We can't tell you how much we respect your opinion which is why i'm really curious what your take is on the situation. In your personal opinion how bad could the impact be on the globe...do you believe this is as i've heard people say 'the worst disaster in human history'. I know your busy and speculation isn't what you do...but i feel certain you are involved in some academic discussion about where this is leading.

The greatest value of all your work is for epidemiological study

in the future.

I do hope that this particular project and the forums continue and you get plenty of funding and that you can coordinate with those doing such epidemiological studies.

I am an organic farmer among other things and wildcraft mushrooms, wild leeks, herbs and berries etc so this fallout has been horrifying to me. Plus I am a parent. I live on a farm that produces organic milk, cheese, meat, veggies and makes their own cheese.

But we are near nuclear facilities which are notoriously leaky so I have paid a lot of attention to the issues and have worked closely at times with those involved in doing the health research on "low level" emissions from nuke plants (which I believe is way too much and is dangerous due to the faulty risk analyses relied on).

Thanks for the link to Ms. Grossman's work.

Once again also thanks for your patience and commitment to keeping this forum as open and informative as humanly possible given your limited resources.

Sorry - here's the url

Please reply to this post so the url stays on top otherwise

I'll have to keep reposting it.

eat a banana, go to jail continued...

all that toxic radioactive waste ending up in the ocean and spread across the globe via the jetstream cannot be a good thing.