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C Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Definitions
Pages 266-271

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... CEHIC: Center for Environmental Health and Injury Control (CDC) CERCLA: Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liabil ity Act; CERCLA provides a federal "Superfund" to clean up uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites as well as accidents, spills, and other emer gency releases of pollutants and contaminants into the environment CHE: Coalition for a Healthy Environment 266
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... Confidence limits are the end points of a confidence interval CIC: Community Involvement Committee (LANL) CLL: Chronic lymphocytic leukemia COWG: Communications and Outreach Workgroup (Oak Ridge)
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... model LOAEL: Lowest-observed-adverse-effect level MED: Manhattan Engineering District Meta-analysis: Analysis of epidemiologic data from several studies based on data included in publications Minimal risk level (MRL) : Estimate of the daily human exposure to a hazardous substance that is likely to be without appreciable risk of adverse non-cancer health effects over a specified duration of exposure MMP: Medical Monitoring Program Model: Schematic description of a system, theory, or phenomenon that accounts
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From page 269...
... : the odds of being exposed among diseased persons divided by the odds of being exposed among nondiseased persons ORAU: Oak Ridge Associated Universities OREPA: Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance ORERP: Offsite Radiation Exposure Review Project ORNL: Oak Ridge National Laboratory ORO: Oak Ridge Operations Office ORR: Oak Ridge Reservation ORRHASP: Oak Ridge Reservation Health Agreement Steering Panel ORRHES: Oak Ridge Reservation Health Effects Subcommittee ORRLOC: Oak Ridge Reservation Local Oversight Committee ORRSSAB: Oak Ridge Reservation Site Specific Advisory Board OTA: Office of Technology Assessment
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... RfD: Reference dose (DOE) Risk: Chance of injury, loss, or detriment; a measure of the deleterious effects that may be expected as the result of an action or inaction Risk assessment: Process by which the risks associated with an action or inaction are identified and quantified Risk estimate: Increment of the incidence or mortality rate projected to occur in a specified exposed population per unit dose for a specified exposure regime and expression period RL: Richland Operations Office (DOE)
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... : Rate (multi plied by 100) of mortality from a disease in the population being studied divided by the comparable rate in a standard population; ratio is similar to a relative risk times 100 TAG: Technical Assistance Grant TCA: Trichloroethane TCE: Trichloroethylene TDH: Tennessee Department of Health Threshold hypothesis: Assumption that no injury occurs below a specified dose TSCA: Toxic Substances Control Act TSP: Technical Steering Panel composed of independent scientists and members of the public created to oversee and direct HEDR Uncertainty: Range of values within which the true value is estimated to lie; a best estimate of possible inaccuracy due to both random and systemic errors: Random Errors: Errors that vary in a nonreproducible way around a limiting mean; these can be treated statistically by use of the laws of prob ability Systemic Errors: Errors that are reproducible and tend to bias a result in one direction; their causes can be assigned, at least in principle, and they can have constant and variable components; generally, these errors cannot be treated statistically UNSCEAR: United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Ra diation X-rays: Penetrating electromagnetic radiation, usually produced by bombarding a metallic target with fast electrons in a high vacuum YDI: Youth Development, Inc.
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Key Terms

  • energy research
  • epidemiologic data
  • effects subcommittee
  • hanford health
  • reservation health

  • national priorities
  • hanford environmental
  • ionizing radiation
  • radiation exposure
  • treated statistically

  • operations office
  • dose equivalent
  • mortality rate
  • special unit
  • steering panel

  • studies based
  • hazard evaluation
  • absorbed dose
  • radiation protection
  • relative risk

  • medical monitoring
  • ion pair
  • occurs below
  • exposure regime
  • outreach workgroup

  • morbidity ratio
  • community health
  • control act
  • hazardous substances
  • river site


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