Title: Radioactivity in rain water and the air observed in Japan 1954-1955
Series/Collection Title: Paper 1055
Conference Title:
energy
International conference on the peaceful uses of atomic
Conference Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Conference Date: 1955
Publisher:
United Nations,New York, NY
Publication Date: 1955
pv
Document Type: Book; Conference literature
Language: English
Journal Announcement: EDB8109
Subfile:
TIC (Technical Information Center).
Country of Origin: United Nations (UN)
Country of Publication: United Nations (UN)
Abstract: Radioactivity was detected in the rain in southern Japan
beginning May 14, 1954, reaching a maximum of 1 c/1 on May 16 at Kyoto
University. Trajectories indicate air came from Bikini via the
Philippines and Formosa. Activity from May to Sep 1954, was always
stronger on the Pacific side of Japan than on Japan sea side,
concentrated at the beginning of rain.;
maximum
Major Descriptors: * JAPAN -- RADIATION MONITORING; *RAIN -- RADIOACTIVITY
Descriptors: BIKINI; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; FALLOUT; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; SPATIAL
DISTRIBUTION
Broader Terms: ASIA; ATMOSPHERIC PRECIPITATIONS; DISTRIBUTION; EXPLOSIONS;
ISLANDS; MARSHALL ISLANDS; MICRONESIA; MONITORING; OCEANIA
Subject Categories: 500300*
-- Environment, Atmospheric -- Radioactive
Materials Monitoring & Transport -- (-1989)
450200
-- Military Technology, Weaponry, & National Defense -- Nuclear
Explosions & Explosives
10/5/791
00792220
Title:
{Item 491 from file:
103)
AIX-11-570886; EDB-81-100485
Radioactive paradise
Author(s): Heussler, H.
source: Kosmos (Stuttgart)
KSMSA
(Germany,
Federal Republic of)
v 76:8.
Coden:
Publication Date: Aug 1980
p 600-608
Document Type: Journal Article
Language:
German
Journal Announcement:
Subfile:
AIX
EDB8101
(non-US Atomindex input).
Country of Origin: Germany, Federal Republic of
Abstract: Most of us will still remember with horror:
In March 1954,
a US
H-bomb exploded directly over Bikini atoll. What has become of this
EXPLOSIONS; *HUMAN POPULATIONS -- BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS;
*NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS
Descriptors: AGRICULTURE; ENIWETOK; FOOD; LEUKEMIA; PLUTONIUM; RADIATION
HAZARDS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; THYROIDECTOMY; USA
Broader Terms: ACTINIDES; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; CLEANING; DISEASES; ELEMENTS;
EXPLOSIONS; HAZARDS; HEALTH HAZARDS; HEMIC DISEASES; INDUSTRY; ISLANDS;
MARSHALL ISLANDS; MATERIALS; MEDICINE; METALS; MICRONESIA; NEOPLASMS;
NORTH AMERICA; OCEANIA; POPULATIONS; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIOACTIVE
MATERIALS; SURGERY; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; WASTES
Subject Categories: 450200*
-- Military Technology,
Defense -- Nuclear Explosions & Explosives
560151
-- Radiation Effects on Animals -- Man
INIS Subject Categories: E14*
10/5/792
00792216
Author(s):
-- Nuclear Explosions
(Item 492 from file: 103)
ERA-06-031174; EDB-81-100481
Maynard,
R.H.;
Servis,
J.D.
Weaponry,
& National
9003958
island that used to be so romantic. And what has become of Eniwetok and
all the small Robinson islands which are radioactive today. Can people
live there again. A scientific investigation now destroys all
illusions. ;
Major Descriptors: *BIKINI -- DECONTAMINATION; *BIKINI -- NUCLEAR