Journal article
Three Mile Island epidemiologic radiation dose assessment revisited: 25 years after the accident
Radiation protection dosimetry, Vol.113(2), pp.214-217
04/01/2005
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nch445
PMID: 15657112
Abstract
Over the past 25 years, public health concerns following the Three Mile Island (TMI) accident prompted several epidemiologic investigations in the vicinity of TMI. One of these studies is ongoing. This commentary suggests that the major source of radiation exposure to the population has been ignored as a potential confounding factor or effect modifying factor in previous and ongoing TMI epidemiologic studies that explore whether or not TMI accidental plant radiation releases caused an increase in lung cancer in the community around TMI. The commentary also documents the observation that the counties around TMI have the highest regional radon potential in the United States and concludes that radon progeny exposure should be included as part of the overall radiation dose assessment in future studies of radiation-induced lung cancer resulting from the TMI accident.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Three Mile Island epidemiologic radiation dose assessment revisited: 25 years after the accident
- Creators
- RWilliam Field
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Radiation protection dosimetry, Vol.113(2), pp.214-217
- DOI
- 10.1093/rpd/nch445
- PMID
- 15657112
- ISSN
- 0144-8420
- eISSN
- 1742-3406
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/01/2005
- Academic Unit
- Occupational and Environmental Health; Epidemiology
- Record Identifier
- 9984363626302771
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