-21those comments,

tna commen.is of Dr. A.

referenced by Geesaman,

B.

can be

added

Long:

» . . there is an urgent need to dispell the sense of
security and certainty that the present limits for
the 7>..ximum permissible lunq burden and the maximun
permissible air concentration bring . . . the public
shoul: be informed of the uncertainties that exist
in these limits."34
"

Vie

Biol-zzical Data

Related

to Cancer

Risk

from Insoluble

Plut:nlum Particles
We have shewn that insoluble alona-emitting particles
wit in untense but localized radiation.

They can irradizte

vary Ric. doses without being organism- or organ fatal.
said th: t the available biological data strongly suggests

inst 3a DF=2: crossly underestimates the DE
rticulat:: of Pu-239,
vr

th

ito

or

insoluble

and consequently, the derived stance-rds

~3 and Mil, for this radionuclide are greatly in error.
nex turr
intense

Davant is

to the experiments involving cancer induction
local exvosure,

since

these

are especially

judging whether or not insolubie alpna-emitting.

marcticles tinstitutea a unigue r sk.
|+

N\

To

-’

Geesaman

collacted

“a analvzel the sertinent experiments, and what follows

==

Ong,

+68

Go. cit., p. 73.

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