Introduction to the special issue on the US Million Person Study of health effects from low-level exposure to radiation

What about the workers?

“…The Million Person Study (MPS) of US radiation workers and nuclear weapons test veterans is a study that will eventually include 34 separate cohorts [31] and offers an opportunity to examine cancer risks in other groups of US workers by period of first employment and monitoring for radionuclide intake. Some of the US sites currently included in the MPS commenced operations sufficiently early to shed light on the disparity in the period of hire ERR/Sv estimates found in the recent study of five US sites [16].…”