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One worker now sets off radiation portals when he enters nuclear plants for work, says workers’ attorney.

The effects of long-term exposure to low-dose ionizing radiation on cancer mortality.

Objective To evaluate the effect of protracted low dose, low dose rate exposure to ionising radiation on the risk of cancer. Design Multinational cohort study. Setting Cohorts of workers in the nuclear industry in France, the UK, and the US included in a major update to the International Nuclear Workers Study (INWORKS). Participants 309 932 workers with individual monitoring data for external exposure to ionising radiation and a total follow-up of 10.7 million person years. Main outcome measur...

The national registry for radiation workers (NRRW) is a long-term follow-up study of the health of radiation workers in the UK.

Good morning. im marci gonzalez in for diana he perez. >> im john muller. here are top headlines we are following in "world news now." round two for heavy rainstorms in california. fears of flash floods and mudslides in some areas. the arctic blast remains in the upper midwest at least through next week. tension in ukraine. officials say the russian military blocked the airport in the crimea region despite assurances from the u.s. they will not intervene. >> more analysis needed to determine h...

Connection with the undercover agent because he was hoping to connect with the taliban after touching off civil unrest in the u.s. there was a plea agreement taken into account his history of mental illness. a huge settlement could exceed $80 million after a lawsuit claimed it damages graves and dumped human remains. the lawsuit accuses eden memorial park of breaking burial vaults to make room for new graves and trying to maximize profits by squeezing graves in, leaving at most 3 inches of spa...

Really, for the workers at the site of the reactors, and they are getting exposed as radiation workers do, and theyre getting monitored, but theyre the only ones that i think carry any risk. >> no matter how many times we hear people say that, still these fears are here in the u.s. tell me about these trace amounts that have shown up on the west coast of the u.s. just how small are they? >> we knew trace amounts would show up all over the world. we have had experience with this from chernobyl, b...

I mean youre very concerned about where it goes from here. >> well, i can tell you as far as -- im really concerned for the people at the plant. because the levels at the plant are very high. theyre accumulating there. radiation workers itself already accumulate many times what the average population does as a result of their job and radiation workers accept that and actually seem to be safe levels. but youre accumulating these now at rates where its going to impact over a longer period. as far ...

Plant? >> anytime youre facing a high radiation level, there will be health concerns. theyre still doing it in a safe and effective method possible. theyre limiting the amount of time exposed to the course. thats very important. they also have according to nhk this morning, a pool of 200 workers that can move in. >> is it fair to use thw word safe? im curious about the word safe at this point when we know the length of time those individuals have been in there. can you even call it safe whats ha...