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RADAR - Risk Models and Information

You want risk information? Well...we'll hedge a bit on this one. The issue of risk from exposure to ionizing radiation is very complex. We will not treat it in any comprehensive way here, but we will share with you a couple of things, and point you to other sites that have good information.

On the Nuclear Medicine Internal Dose page we give a short document that gives "boilerplate" risk language that can be used in patient consent forms for research studies involving radiation exposures, from Vanderbilt U. We'll just repeat that link here. On the Medical External Dose page, we show a table giving some external dose numbers for some medical procedures, linking the dose values to this consent form risk language. What the heck, links are free, here's that one again, too!

Dr. Randy Brill of the Society of Nuclear Medicine put together a slide presentation for the Society of Nuclear Medicine summarizing current knowledge on radiation risk. The Society of Nuclear Medicine has graciously allowed us to share that slide presentation with you; the slides and Dr. Brill's accompanying talk can be downloaded here (big file ~16 MB!). This is part of a CD that can be purchased from the Society, which has many other interesting talks on it.

Here are some links to other sites. This list is not comprehensive, nor in any particular order. These are just some potentially interesting links. The members of RADAR do not necessarily endorse any of the opinions of these authors. Any suggestions for improvement are always welcome.

A position statement on risk from the Health Physics Society
An article by Zbigniew Jaworowski on Radiation Risk and Ethics
A page by Bruce Busby of Oregon State University on Risk
A paper by Ken Mossman on the LNT debate
Idaho State University's Risk Page
The Junkscience.com Web Page
Faith-Based Radiation Protection, a Power Point presentation given by Bob Dixon to a NC Health Physics Society meeting. His comments: "Warning: it is a highly-irreverent, satirical romp which chronicles my recent travels through the Orwellian world of NCRP and ICRP, wherein all normal logic is seemingly abandoned (and all thinking is based on a limited version of a universe in which radiation is the only risk). It also has a very low "political-correctness coefficient", but you may enjoy; it and may also force you to think "outside of their box" for a while. Beyond that, I make no apology for it."
An article by Bernard Cohen of the Univ. of Pittsburgh on risk
The most excellent Radiation and Health Physics Web Page gives the following links (yes I just stole them right from their page, I'm a lazy guy, and this is public information):
- Argonne National Laboratory's Risk Assessment and Safety Evaluation (RASE) Group
- EPA's Estimating Radiogenic Cancer Risks (PDF format)
- EPA Office of Radiation & Indoor Air Radiation Protection Division Publications (several on risk)
- Issue of perceived risk (Discovery Channel)
- Principles for Evaluating Epidemiologic Data in Regulatory Risk Assessment
- Risk Research (LBL)
- RiskWorld (news and articles on risk)

We'll be updating this periodically. If we feel like it.