This report focuses on the lung-cancer risk associated with radon progeny. However, other health effects of exposure to radon progeny and to uranium mining in general have also been of concern. The ...

From 1946 to 1990 extensive uranium mining was conducted in the southern parts of the former German Democratic Republic. The overall workforce included several 100 000 individuals. A cohort of 59 001 ...

BEIR IV AND BEIR VI RISK MODELS The committee's models are a direct extension of the BEIR IV model, which included parameters for time since exposure and attained age, but not exposure rate or ...