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Technical Considerations for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission/ National Academy of Sciences Proposed Study: Cancer in Populations Living Near Nuclear Facilities

Product ID:1024677
Date Published:04-Nov-2011
File size:772.52 KB
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Items with long-term focus (e.g. technology innovation scope, 5-10 yr outlook) and/or provides strategic insight for the industry. Including, but not limited to: new technology, new techniques and strategic planning documents.

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Sector Name:Nuclear Power
Document Type:Technical Report
FileType:Adobe PDF (.pdf)
Price:No Charge

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Abstract
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), through the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), is updating the 1990 U.S. National Institutes of Health - National Cancer Institute (NCI) report, “Cancer in Populations Living near Nuclear Facilities.” The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) formed a committee of scientists and professionals in the fields of epidemiology, radiation biology, nuclear plant effluents, and environmental risk assessment to provide study design considerations to the NAS committee responsible for scoping the update to the 1990 NCI report. These considerations address the data challenges that exist, the statistical limitations inherent in this type of study, and the epidemiological approaches that may facilitate meaningful study results.

This EPRI report provides a summary of the previous NCI study and the key conclusions from similar, multi-facility studies recently carried out by other countries. Issues regarding study groupings, treatment of confounders, and other epidemiological study design considerations are included along with a discussion of the challenges of performing an exposure and risk assessment for the public living around nuclear facilities.

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2011 Program 41.09.01  Low-Level Waste and Radiation Management
Keywords
  • Environmental risk assessment
  • Epidemiology
  • Nuclear plant effluents
  • Radiation biology
  • Radiation cancer risk
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