This report is cited by both 'sides,' so it must be correct! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8389834/ Even very low doses of radiation pose a risk of cancer over a persons lifetime, a National Academy of Sciences panel concluded. It rejected some scientists arguments that tiny doses are harmless or may in fact be beneficial. The findings, disclosed in a report Wednesday, could influence the maximum radiation levels that are allowed at abandoned reactors and other nuclear sites and raises warnings about excessive exposure to radiation for medical purposes such as repeated whole-body CT scans.
It is unlikely that there is a threshold (of radiation exposure) below which cancers are not induced, the scientists said... ...The panel also said that approximately one person out of 1,000 would develop cancer from exposure to the amount of radiation from a single, average whole body CT-scan...But Royal also said that procedures such as CT scans should be used to deal with a specific medical problems and not part of annual medical screenings. You should not be exposed to radiation for superficial reasons, Royal said in a telephone interview... ...The scientific research base shows that there is no threshold of exposure below which low levels of ionized radiation can be demonstrated to be harmless or beneficial, said Richard R. Monson, the panels chairman. He is a professor of epidemiology at Harvards School of Public Health. The panel said new and more extensive data developed over the past 15 years only strengthen the conclusions of the panels last report, in 1990, on low-level radiation risks... ...The NAS panel puts to rest once and for all claims that low doses of radiation arent dangerous ... nuclear advocates have been making this claim for years said Daniel Hirsch, president of Committee to Bridge the Gap, a Los Angeles-based nuclear watchdog group. Mitchell Singer, a spokesman for the Nuclear Energy Institute, the industrys lobbying arm, said the report is a positive finding. It shows there is very little risk of exposure from low levels of radiation. Debbi who _still_ intends to tackle the 70K+ cites/snippets she's amassed (sp?) for a certain somebody's benefit... ';} __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
