CORE: Low-Level Radiation and Health Conference

Event published by H J Simpson

Event date: June 19, 2010 09:00

Tagged as: carcinogenesis environmentalism health mutagenesis nuclear_power radiation radioactive teratogenesis uranium

Places: broughton-in-furness calder_hall cumbria drigg manchester seascale sellafield windscale

Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment announces: The Silver Anniversary Low Level Radiation and Health Conference

Topics and speakers include:

• Alice Stewart lecture: Professor Wolfgang Weiss Head of the Department of Radiation Protection and Health of the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) in Munich, Germany.Radiation risks.
• Radiation-induced bystander effects – latest news: Dr Carmel Mothersill, McMaster University, Canada 
• Stillbirth study from Germany: Dr Alfred Korblein.
• Chernobyl and Epidemiology: Professor Richard Wakeford, University, of Manchester.
• Radiation biology of environmental and medical exposures: Professor Eric Wright, Dundee University.
• Radioactive waste management.
• The holes in the proposed Geological Repository: Dr Rachel Western, former Nuclear researcher FOE and at NIREX.
• UK and its Uranium supplies – Health and Environmental Impacts: Peter Diehl, WISE and Greenpeace Uranium information website.

Workshops.

• Very low levels of radiation and health effects: John Urquhart, PhD student, Open University
• Nuclear Test Veterans – latest evidence: Tracey, University of St Andrews.

For those interested and staying overnight in Manchester, we are aiming to book a room in a nearby pub for a strategy brainstorm on Sunday 20th June.

For full programme and registration form, contact: Janine Allis-Smith, Dry Hall, Broughton Mills, Broughton-in-Furness, Cumbria LA20 6AZ.

Links:

CORE website

Background reading
This Wikipedia article describes the Windscale fire of 1957, Britain's largest nuclear disaster (to date)

Contact email: janine@core.furness.co.uk

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