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Exposure of the American Population to Radioactive Fallout from Nuclear Weapons Tests A Review of the CDC-NCI Draft Report on a Feasibility Study of the Health Consequences to the American Population from Nuclear Weapons Tests Conducted by the United States and Other Nations (2003) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix B: Committee Activities
Pages 50-52

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... The expertise sought in this group included health physics and dose assessment (pertaining to both external radiation and internal emitters) , radiation chemistry, radiobiology, nuclear medicine, ethics, epidemiology, biostatistics, modeling, and risk assessment and communication.
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... Almost 20 people attended the meeting, including members of the press from Iowa. The public meeting was structured to solicit comment from technical experts and laypersons on three topics: dos~metry and uncertainty, archiving and evaluation of other data and other kinds of evidence that shed light on possible health effects, and communication of information in the final report in written and oral forms.
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... FOURTH COMMITTEE MEETING The fourth and final meeting of the committee consisted of closed sessions to review and discuss the fourth draft of this report.
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  • trisha pritikin
  • perry beeman

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