An Assessment of Potential Health Effects from Exposure to PAVE PAWS Low-Level Phased-Array Radiofrequency Energy (2005) / Chapter Skim
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The purpose of this section is to describe the history of the facility and, in particular, the history of public concerns that have led to the committee's charge as well as to a number of other studies and invesugahons. While the committee was established to perform an mdependent assessment of the possible biological and potential health effects of the PAVE PAWS phasedarray radar system, and has a very specific statement of work (see below)
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The Air Force Envirommental Assessment concluded in part that the proposed installahon and operation of PAVE PAWS "is not a major federal action with significamt adverse impact on the quality of the human environment." A report was also issued by a Department of Defense contractor, the Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute, in May of 1976 that evaluated the impact of the proposed PAVE PAWS radar system on the electromagnetic enviromment at and near the proposed facility (IITRI 1976)
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Albanese's concerns include potential biological effects on cells and tissues from: · "Steep" rise-times in the PAVE-PAWS waveform, · Overlapping wave fronts originating from multiple antennas on the PAVE PAWS radar, and · The possibility of precursor formation m tissue. Public concern over the potential for health effects from PAVE PAWS have been heightened by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health Cancer Registry reports, which for the last 10-plus years have reported on several excess cancers in the Cape Cod area, and, for certain cancers, on the upper Cape.
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. In summary, there are members of the Cape Cod public who have had longstanding concern over the potential health effects of the PAVE PAWS radar system.
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This determinahon will be communicated to the sponsor as a letter report. If the research data from continuous and pulsed RF energies are considered to be applicable for the determination of possible health effects of phased-array RF energy, the committee will use this mformation to update the 1979 National Research Council analysis of the exposure levels and potential biological effects of the PAVE PAWS Radar System.
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UNCERTAINTIES ASSOCIATED WITH THE EVALUATION OF PAVE PAWS HEALTH EFFECTS The Statement of Task asks the committee to discuss the level of uncertainty associated with using data denved from cell, animal, and epidemiological studies
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Biological test systems may not closely approximate the physiological state in humans, and human physiological conditions vaty widely. The approaches to extrapolate from biological effects to health effects are frequently not well defined.
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2003. Health Effects of Exposure to Radiofequency Electmmagnetic Fields: Recommendations for Research.
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