MILES O’BRIEN:
Researchers here have published hundreds of papers documenting the links between radiation and its ill health effects, primarily cancer. They have written the book that is the basis for the standards for acceptable radiation exposure.
Among the findings over the years: Thyroid cancer and leukemia are the first to strike. Solid cancers come 10 to 30 years later. Young people are more susceptible to developing cancer than adults, and women are more susceptible than men. Perhaps the most important, a single exposure increases cancer risk for life.
The bottom line? Of 94,000 survivors studied over 70 years, about 1,000 additional cases of cancer can be attributed to radiation from the bombs.
JOHN BOICE, National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements: So, the atomic bomb survivors study, which is a remarkable study — it's the gold standard in terms of radiation epidemiology — it has limitations, and one of the limitations is, the dose was given all at once.
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