Descriptors: DATA PROCESSING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN POPULATIONS; NUCLEAR
WEAPONS; POPULATION RELOCATION; RADIATION HAZARDS; RADIATION PROTECTION
; RADIOECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; US DOE
Broader Terms: ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; ELEMENTS; EXPLOSIONS; FALLOUT;
HAZARDS; HEALTH HAZARDS; ISLANDS; MARSHALL ISLANDS; MICRONESIA;
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; OCEANIA; POPULATIONS; PROCESSING; US
ORGANIZATIONS; WEAPONS

Subject Categories: 510300*
-- Environment, Terrestrial -- Radioactive
Materials Monitoring & Transport -- (-1989)
520300
-- Environment, Aquatic -- Radioactive Materials Monitoring &
Transport -- (1989)
500300
-- Environment, Atmospheric -- Radioactive Materials Monitoring
&

Transport

552000

--

(-1989)

-- Public Health

10/5/806
(Item 506 from file: 103)
00739803
AIX-12-585036; EDB-81-048059
Title: Whole body counting results from 1974 to 1979 for Bikini Island
residents |

Author(s): Miltenberger, R.P.;
(Brookhaven National Lab.,

Greenhouse, N.A.;
Upton, NY (USA))

Source: Health Phys. (United Kingdom)
v 39:3.
Publication Date: Sep 1980
p 395-407
Document Type: Journal Article; Numerical data
Language: English
Journal Announcement: EDB8103

Subfile:

AIX

Lessard,

Coden:

E.T.

HLTPA

(non-US Atomindex input).

Country of Origin: United States
Abstract: Three body burden measurements of the Bikini Island population
were conducted from 1974 to 1978 at Bikini Island.
During this time,
the mean /sup 137/Cs body burden of the adult Bikini population
increased by a factor of 20.
This dramatic elevation of the body
burden appears to be solely attributable to increased availability of
locally grown food products,

specifically coconuts

and coconut plant

products.
In January 1979, 45% of the individuals that were whole body
counted in April 1978 were recounted approx. 145 days after the Bikini
Island population departed from Bikini Atoll. These results show that

the adult population /sup 137/Cs body burden decreased by a factor of
2.9 between the April 1978 and January 1979 in vivo measurements. ;

Major Descriptors: *ADULTS -- BODY BURDEN; *CESIUM 137 -- BODY BURDEN;
*HUMAN POPULATIONS -- DOSE COMMITMENTS
Descriptors: BIKINI; BODY COMPOSITION; CHILDREN; COBALT 60; COCONUT PALMS;
COCONUTS; CROPS; DIET; EVALUATED DATA; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FALLOUT
DEPOSITS; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM 40; TIME DEPENDENCE; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING
Broader Terms: AGE GROUPS; ALKALI METAL ISOTOPES; ALKALI METALS; ANIMALS;
BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-PLUS
DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CESIUM ISOTOPES; COBALT ISOTOPES; COUNTING
TECHNIQUES; DATA; ELECTRON CAPTURE RADIOISOTOPES; ELEMENTS; FALLOUT;
FOOD; FRUITS; INFORMATION; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; INTERNAL
CONVERSION RADIOISOTOPES; ISLANDS; ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES;
ISOTOPES; LIGHT NUCLEI; MAMMALS; MAN; MARSHALL ISLANDS; METALS;
MICRONESIA; MINUTES LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; NUCLEI; NUMERICAL DATA;
OCEANIA; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; ODD-ODD NUCLEI; PLANTS; POPULATIONS;
POTASSIUM ISOTOPES; PRIMATES; RADIOISOTOPES; TREES; VERTEBRATES; YEARS
LIVING RADIOISOTOPES

Subject Categories:

560171*

Toxicology -- Man -INIS Subject Categories:

-- Radiation Effects -- Nuclide Kinetics &

(-1987)
C21*
--

Tissue Distribution,

Toxicology & Removal of Radionuclides

10/5/807
00733681

Author(s):

¥Item 507 from file:
EDB-81-041936
Tsunoda,

R.T.

103)

Metabolism,

S
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ny

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Title: Magnetic-field-aligned characteristics of plasma bubbles in the
nighttime equatorial ionosphere.
Topical report no. 3, 2 Apr-1 Jul 79

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