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Gordon K. MacLeod, MD; William R. Hendee, PhD; M. Roy Schwarz, MD

JAMA. 1986;256(5):632-634.

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No longer can it be said that no one has died from radiation in a nuclear power plant. Until the Chernobyl accident, the nuclear power industry had an enviable health record compared with that of oil-fed or coal-fired power plants that generate electricity. However, the Three Mile Island (TMI) accident in 1979 was a warning shot across the bow of the nuclear industry. This April, a direct hit occurred at Chernobyl.

What have we learned in the seven years between these accidents? What have we done to improve the management and reduce the risk of a radiation accident at a nuclear power plant? What efforts have we made to educate ourselves and the public about the likelihood of nuclear incidents and accidents, and to minimize their health effects? Has activist sentiment against nuclear power perhaps been so strident that nuclear advocates have been coerced into defensively denying that any health . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
University of Pittsburgh; American Medical Association Chicago

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