A radiation litigation causation analysis which achieves fairness to both litigants

Very few, if any, radiation induced cancers should appear among nuclear workers in the United States. The existing safety standards and lifetime doses received under the operation of those safety standards are such that less than 1% of the cancers that appear in nuclear workers should be related to their occupational radiation exposure. This small numbers of valid claims is a tribute to the effectiveness of the federal safety standards and to the ALARA professional philosophy of achieving excellence in radiation protection which has marked the field of health physics since its inception.