research on human health effects of low doses of ionizing radiation was prepared by a Committee of the National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences. In 1984, a review of the epidemiology program was prepared by a subcommittee of the Health and Environmental Research Advisory Committee (HERAC) to DOE. These reviews. are summarized and discussed briefly in Appendix D.) No overall evaluation of the DOE epidemiologic record, however, has ever been released in a form available to the general public. In 1988, Physicians for Social Responsibility under- took an effort to meet that need as part of the overall mandate of its Physicians Task Force on the Health DOE-sponsored epidemiologic studies published during the last several decades, the Task Force has also made assessments of recent policy changes. In 1989, Admiral Watkins told the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs: As an employer, DOE has a moral and ethical responsibility to monitor the health of its workers in an effort to ensure thatall potential harmful aspects of the work environment are controlled .... Epidemiologic sur- veys of our work force represent a key element of our programmatic efforts to successfully mect this obligation.” Subsequent sections of this report, and its concusions, will consider the extent to which that responsibiliry has been met. wel at Risks of Nuclear Weapons Production. The present report summarizes that effort. URDLASa While most of its work focused on the analysis of 26 ft Sa fC wor Pa DEAD RECKONING ‘ aa a. ect ur: P . , .