-~10British nuclear reactor at Vinducale accidently emitted a
very considerable amount of radicactive debris.
Detailed
monitoring measurement: showed that pasture land contaminated
by this fallout preduced ailk so heavily contaminated with
fodine 132
as tec necersitate that it be dumped.
The scientific
studies or the windscale 4: faster provide valuable data
which can be us.:d to cevelop the proper interpretation of the
monitoring meeatrenents in the regicn of the Nevada Test Site.
Although the important aifferensea between the hazard of ex=-
ternal radiatiot from faiiout.
and the internal hazard, es-
pecially to the thyroid, ‘vas recognized by at least one AEC
official in 1959 “see Gordoa Du..ning testimony to Sudcomittee
on Research., Deve’opmert and Radiation, Hearings, 1959, p. 445)
mon, "ozing proc. dures,
and
interpretation cf results were not
alterod to briag them in line with this concept.
Thus, the
inadequate intecrpretative precedures which have until now
obscured the toue haseri resulting from short-range fallout
from nuclear vests ir Nevada, could have been corrected some
years ago.
9)
Correetior
of a desert ibed inadequacy of monitoring
procciuses would aflect mov aun: y estamatec of hazard from
atmospheric and uniorgrourd wuclear tests, but also hazards
possible fron acclists oftecting ruciear reactors, which
also produce ‘odin Lito nevis
On the tastes of the Tecegerne considerations, the analysis
of the hazard rrom fallout
in the region of the Nevada Test