Occup Med. 1991 Oct-Dec;6(4):641-63.

An overview of the Hanford controversy.

Occupational medicine (Philadelphia, Pa.)

A M Stewart, G W Kneale

PMID: 1962251

Abstract

In 1964, the Atomic Energy Commission agreed to sponsor "a study of the lifetime health and mortality experiences of all employees of AEC contractors." The commission put in charge of this study a physician (Thomas Mancuso) who had recently shown how the U.S. Social Security system could be used to identify the dates and causes of death of all insured workers. As director of the AEC project, Mancuso was at liberty to include any or all the postwar offshoots of the Manhattan Project. His master plan included workers from Oak Ridge, Los Alamos, and Hanford, but it soon became apparent that his attempts to link radiation exposures to subsequent events were proving more successful at Hanford than elsewhere. The authors of this paper, who participated in the study, review the controversy surrounding its eventual publication.

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• Female
• Humans
• Male
• Maximum Allowable Concentration
• Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced / mortality
• Nuclear Energy*
• Occupational Diseases / mortality
• Radiation Monitoring*
• Survival Analysis
• United States
• Washington

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