Cambridge forum. Health effects of nuclear radiation.

This distributed audio programme has Alice Stewart talking about the impact of the American nuclear industry on its nuclear workers. Her point is that the impact of radiation has significantly, and conveniently, been underestimated. She talks about cell mutation, which can ultimately result in cancer. The problem is whether the mutation happens 2 year's later - or 50. Our understanding of the affects of radiation are based on the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. However, Stewart notes that when data relating to people working at a US nuclear plant in Hanford was analysed, it was discovered that there were higher instances of death from cancer. Stewart's epidemiological studies of pre-natal x-rays were used in evidence.