[CPEO-MEF] Expert panel scrutinizes studies of radar safety

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Expert panel scrutinizes studies of radar safety

By KEVIN DENNEHY
STAFF WRITER
FALMOUTH - They came to Cape Cod yesterday charged with addressing a 
public health question that's been asked around here for two decades.

Are the microwaves that pulse in all directions from the 10-story PAVE 
PAWS radar station as safe as regular radar?

Or do those microwaves pose health risks to those who live around the 
Air Force radar station that science simply hasn't figured out yet?

The National Research Council has assembled an 11-member panel it hopes 
can eventually provide some answers.

If anyone can, some suggest it is likely this group: There's a professor 
emeritus in epidemiology from Yale, a biostatistician from Johns Hopkins 
University, an electrical engineer from the University of Colorado at 
Boulder are among the panelists.

The council, an independent agency of the National Academy of Sciences 
that provides research for the government, will pore through hundreds, 
if not thousands, of radar studies.

And by next September they hope to decide whether existing studies of 
radar can even be applied to this radar that some have called unique, 
and whether more research should be conducted.

This article can be viewed in its entirety at:
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/expertpanel16.htm

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