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Article: ANOTHER LOOK AT RADIATION REPORT URGED U.S. STUDY OF HANFORD RISKS WAS TOO ROSY, A PANEL SAYS.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- December 15, 1999
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A federal advisory panel said yesterday that researchers should take another crack at their study into the health effects of radiation released on people living downwind of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.
The National Research Council, an arm of the National Academies, yesterday released its critique of an $18 million study sponsored by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
That study, released in ``draft'' form in January, found no link between Hanford's release of radioactive iodine in the 1940s and 1950s and thyroid disease among people who lived downwind.
However, a subcommittee of the council said that while researchers ...