ML13275A461
| ML13275A461 | |
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| Issue date: | 10/02/2013 |
| From: | Terry Brock Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research |
| To: | Osborn D Sandia |
| Terry Brock | |
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| Download: ML13275A461 (2) | |
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Brock, Terry Sent:
Wednesday, October 02, 2013 2:42 PM To:
'Osborn, Douglas' Cc:
Ghosh, Tina; Gauntt, Randall O; Bixler, Nathan E; Bush-Goddard, Stephanie
Subject:
RE: NRC-NAS Cancer Risk Study
- Doug, Thank you for your e-mail. We are aware of the attached articles and will submit them and your e-mail into ADAMS on behalf of SARI (not Sandia, right?) and we will forward to NAS for their consideration--the NRC selected NAS to perform the study because of their independence. While the NRC will provide information to the NAS, the Academy has full autonomy in deciding how best to meet the NRCs request. For future reference, the NAS study project officer is Dr. Ourania Kosti and can be reached by e-mail at okosti@nas.edu. Also, please visit the NAS study webpage and where you can join an e-mail list server that provides periodic updates (http://dels.nas.edu/global/nrsb/CancerRisk).
Sincerely, Terry Brock, Ph.D.
Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington D.C. 20555 Mail Stop CSB-3A07 phone: 301-251-7487 From: Osborn, Douglas [1]
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 7:17 AM To: Brock, Terry Cc: Ghosh, Tina; Gauntt, Randall O; Bixler, Nathan E
Subject:
NRC-NAS Cancer Risk Study
- Terry, Tina Ghosh provided me your email. I am currently working with her, Jon Barr, Randy Gauntt, and Nate Bixler on the SOARCA project.
I am also part of a group called SARI (Scientists for Accurate Radiation Information).
The group consists of national and international radiation/nuclear experts from the medical field, the nuclear industry, academia, and federal entities. Our mission is to help prevent unnecessary, radiation-phobia-related deaths, morbidity, and injuries associated with nuclear/radiological emergencies through countering phobia-promoting misinformation spread by alarmists via the news and other media including journal publications. A list of the SARI members and affiliation is provided further below in this email.
I was asked to contact you (i.e., the POC for SECY-12-0136) on behalf of SARI to let you know of recent Canadian and British studies looking at cancer incidence around NPPs, and a study of the potential cancer reduction from CT scans (see attachments). We have recently been made aware of your NRC-NAS cancer risk pilot study and will be providing comments in future public commenting periods. We sincerely hope the NRC-NAS epidemiological studies are scientifically objective and not biased in favor of concluding an LNT-type dose response nor provide open-ended conclusions that imply that LNT-type interpretations of data uncertainties are legitimate. The issue of epidemiological study methods being used in favor of the LNT model is discussed in the attached paper by Scott et al. (2008).
Also, if you are interested in learning more about SARI, please let me know.
- Regards, Doug SARI Membership and Affiliation Douglas Osborn - Sandia National Laboratories Bobby Scott - Lovelace Lung Research Institute Brant Ulsh - Adjunct Faculty, Colorado State University Wade Allison - Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of Oxford Yehoshua Socol - Falcon Analytics Mohan Doss - Associate Professor, Fox Chase Cancer Center Elizabeth Ruedig - Postdoctoral Fellow, Colorado State University Kanokporn Noy Rithidech - Professor of Research Pathology, Stony Brook University Matthew Denman -- Sandia National Laboratories Krzysztof Fornalski - National Centre for Nuclear Research and PGE Nuclear Energy Mark Miller - Sandia National Laboratories Jerry Cuttler - Cuttler & Associates Steven Payne - U.S. Department of Energy - NNSA Marek Janiak - Professor of Medical Science, Military Institute of Hygiene &
Epidemiology, Poland Matthew Kaspar - U.S. Department of Energy - NNSA Rex Borders - U.S. Department of Energy - NNSA Cynthia H. McCollough - Director of CT Clinical Innovation Center & Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics, Mayo Clinic Jim Hylko Charles L. Sanders Ludwig Feinendegen Ludwik Dobrzynski Tony Brooks