Rf Radiation— Facts and Fallacies
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THE DEBATE OVER POSSIBLE ADVERSE HEALTH EFFECTS FOLLOWING exposure to electromagnetic radiation (EMR) is very controversial and very much to the fore in Australia today. The Sir Harry Gibbs Inquiry into Community Needs and High Voltage Transmission Line Development in New South Wales and the debate on siting of the Richmond/Brunswick power line in Victoria have received a great deal of media attention. EMR is a generic term and refers to the transport of energy in the form of an electromagnetic wave travelling at the speed of light. The EMR spectrum is very wide and covers power frequency fields, radio-frequency and microwave, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, X-ray and some nuclear radiations. (Note that, in the context of this paper, microwave radiation will be regarded as a subset of the radiofrequency (RF) band.) Claims of adverse health effects due to EMR exposure include increased cancer rates, adverse pregnancy outcomes and cataract induction. Insofar as police and law enforcement personnel are concerned, a possible risk due to exposure to EMR, over and above that of the general community, may arise because of the use of RF transmitting devices during the course of their employment. In addressing the issue of increased risk of adverse health effects arising from exposure to RF, this paper shall draw heavily from the experiences of Telecom Australia, which is the largest user of RF radiation in Australia outside of the Defence Department. As such, Telecom Australia has a large number of people involved in the use and transmission of RF radiation with transmit powers as low as a few milliwatts up to several hundred kilowatts. A detailed discussion of the health risk management of RF radiation may be found elsewhere (see Hocking & Joyner 1991).
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