SRC-684

Microwave Cataractogenesis: A Critical Review of the Literature. Aerospace Medicine 43(1):67-75, January 1972 (reprint)

W. C. Milroy and S. M. Michaelson, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Department of Radiation Biology and Biophysics ·1972 · T2 peer-reviewed analysis, model or thesis · VC06 XC01 XC03

Commissioned by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (work under contract at the University of Rochester Atomic Energy Project, report UR-49-1355, as printed). Who paid for a study is recorded because it bears on how its conclusions should be read, not because it makes them wrong.

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Aerospace Med. 43(1):67-75 (1972); AEC report UR-49-1355 the identifier this document is registered under

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CLM-1327 In 1972 the experimental evidence put the onset of microwave cataracts at about 10 times the then US limit, for acute exposures, and found the 1-3 GHz band the most effective. Nobody had tested years of low-level exposure.
CLM-1328 Studies of radar and microwave workers up to 1972 found small lens changes but no clear cases of cataract below about ten times the US limit. The reviewers saw no harm at the limit but said nobody had shown that years of low-level exposure were harmless.

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