Ian Fairlie
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Ian Fairlie is a U.K. based Canadian consultant on radiation in the environment and former member of the three person secretariat to Britain’s Committee Examining the Radiation Risks of Internal Emitters (CERRIE). He is a radiation biologist who has focused on the radiological hazards of nuclear fuel and he has studied radioactive releases at nuclear facilities since before the Chernobyl accident in 1986.
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Nationality | Canadian |
Alma mater | University of Western Ontario Barts Medical College Imperial College London Princeton University |
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Fields | Consultancy, radiation biology and radiation contamination |
Fairlie has published papers relating to nuclear issues, dating back to at least 1992, in Annual Review of Public Health,[1] International Journal of Cancer, and Radiation Protection Dosimetry.[2] Fairlie and David Sumner were commissioned by the European Parliament to write the 2006 TORCH report, a health impacts report, for the twentieth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. In 2016, an updated TORCH report was written. Both Fairlie and Sumner are members of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.[3][4]