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Letter Report to the Department of the Air Force from the Committee to Assess Potential Health Effects from Exposure to PAVE PAWS Low-level Phased-array Radiofrequency Energy (2002) / Chapter Skim
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Letter Report
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... ~ Hi,, . , ~ ~ I, ~ Second, although more than 2 decades of exposure to PAVE PAWS phased-array radiation has been experienced by the Cape Cod population which should allow a direct evaluation of any adverse health effects, there are currently inadequate data about the distribution of population exposures in the Cape Cod region.
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... . After the phase [V data are evaluated and during the committee's update of the 1979 National Research Council report, the committee will re-evaluate the adequacy of the existing RF energy literature for determining the potential biologic and health effects of the PAVE PAWS phased~ · ., ~ .~ , .1 .
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... It should be further noted that the extensive literature on powerfrequency fields is not considered relevant to the evaluation of PAVE PAWS health effects in our study because the physical mechanisms of interaction between power-frequency fields and tissue, on the one hand, and RF energy and tissue at low field strengths, on the other, are expected to be different. Furthennore, studies of power-frequency fields tend to concentrate on the effects of magnetic fields whereas studies on the effects of RF energy focus on power-density measurements or SAR's.
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