About the Authors

Markus Eidemüller

markus.eidemueller@helmholtz-muenchen.de

Affiliation Helmholtz Zentrum München, Institute of Radiation Protection, Neuherberg, Germany

Peter Jacob

Affiliation Helmholtz Zentrum München, Institute of Radiation Protection, Neuherberg, Germany

Rachel S. D. Lane

Affiliation Radiation and Health Sciences Division, Directorate of Environmental and Radiation Protection and Assessment, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Stanley E. Frost

Affiliation Frost&Frost Consultants, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Lydia B. Zablotska

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

Funding was received from the mining companies Cameco Corporation and AREVA Resources Canada Inc. SF is an independent consultant and is associated with Frost&Frost Consultants, Saskatoon. He is a retired Eldorado employee. All funds from the mining companies were given to the CNSC's Research Support Program (RSP). All research activities required the approval of an internal RSP committee. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors..

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RL SF LZ. Performed the experiments: RL SF LZ. Analyzed the data: ME PJ LZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ME PJ. Wrote the paper: ME PJ RL LZ.