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59 Mich. L. Rev. 259 (1960-1961)
Radiation Injuries and Statistics: The Need for a New Approach to Injury Litigation

handle is hein.journals/mlr59 and id is 277 raw text is: RADIATION INJURIES AND STATISTICS: THE NEED FOR A NEW APPROACH TO INJURY LITIGATIONt Samuel D. Estep* In dedicating this effort to Dean Stason I wish to acknowledge that his pioneering foresight in this area where law and technology mix was responsible for my own interest and publications on atomic energy legal problems. I wish to give credit to Dean Stason for showing the way as well as giving much wise counsel in the course of our joint research publications. At the same time I must absolve him of any responsibility for whatever shortcomings this article and the idea here discussed may have. - S.D.E. T HE emphasis given by the mass media of communication to some of the dramatic problems arising from the use of nuclear energy unfortunately has diverted attention from some of the mat- ters about which something can be done by lawyers, administra- tors, and legislators without the necessity of complicated interna- tional negotiations between various parties to the Cold War. The headlines leave the uninformed, and perhaps often also the informed, public with the impression that even for radiation in- juries the important problems all deal with such questions as: (1) Will only a few or many millions of people survive an all-out nuclear war? (2) Will the fallout from nuclear weapons testing cause no, a few, or hundreds of thousands of cases of leukemia and similar diseases among the populations of the world? Leaving aside the difficulties connected with nuclear warfare and considering only those involved in peaceful uses of atomic energy, the attention of the general public and even of government officials usually is directed to such questions as these: (1) Should nuclear reactors, whether on land or in ships, be permitted close to large population centers? (2) What type of licensing, inspection, and operating pro- cedures should be followed to protect the public and t The ideas here presented were first discussed in a paper delivered at an International Symposium on. Legal and Administrative Problems of Protection in the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, sponsored by Euratom in Brussels, Belgium, in September 1960. The paper there delivered is being published by Euratom as a part of the proceedings of the Symposium. I gratefully acknowledge the financial support for the research on which this article is based which was made possible by a grant from the Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project of the University of Michigan. I also wish to express my indebtedness to my research assistant, Martin Adelman, particularly for the mathematical calculations upon which the analysis and conclusions are based. * Professor of Law, University of Michigan.- Ed.

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