Broader Terms: ABSORPTION; ALKALINE EARTH ISOTOPES; BETA DECAY
RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CEREALS; CHEMICAL
ANALYSIS; DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; EVEN-ODD NUCLEI;
EXPLOSIONS; GRAMINEAE; GRASS; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; ISLANDS;
ISOTOPES; LEGUMINOSAE; MARSHALL ISLANDS; MATERIALS; MICRONESIA; NUCLEAR
EXPLOSIONS; NUCLEI; OCEANIA; PLANTS; QUANTITATIVE CHEMICAL ANALYSIS;
RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOISOTOPES; RESIDUES; SEPARATION PROCESSES;
STRONTIUM ISOTOPES; UPTAKE; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES

Subject Categories:

560173*

Toxicology -- Plants

--

-- Radiation Effects -- Nuclide Kinetics &

(-1987)

510302
-- Environment, Terrestrial -- Radioactive Materials Monitoring
& Transport -- Terrestrial Ecosystems & Food Chains -- (-1987)
450200
-- Military Technology, Weaponry, & National Defense -- Nuclear
Explosions & Explosives
10/5/8093
(Item 509 from file: 103)
00733349
EDB-81-041604
Title: Radioactivity in animal thyroid glands

Author(s):

Wolff,

A.H.

Source: Public*Health Rep.

(United States)

Publication Date: 1957
p 1121-1126
Document Type: Journal Article
Language: English
Journal Announcement: EDB8103
Subfile:

TIC

(Technical

v 72.

Coden: PHRPA

Information Center).

Country of Origin: United States
Abstract: Iodine-131 activity was readily found in thyroid glands from
grazing animals in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Oregon within 2
weeks following the start of the 1956 US Pacific atomic weapons tests.
A progressive increase was noted in the proportion of samples which

were active from mid-May to mid-October,

at which time the study was

terminated. Based on the Arizona and Ohio data, the average weekly
dosages from mid-May to mid-October to cattle and sheep were 35 and 120
milli-roentgen equivalent physical, respectively, apparently harmless
to the health of animals. It is suggested that the average cattle /sup
131/I level found in this study is approximately the average
continuously existing in US cattle during the past 2 or 3 years.
Theoretical considerations indicate that with the levels of /sup 131/I
found in cattle thyroids, detectable amounts of /sup 131/I would have
been secreted with the fresh milk produced in these areas.;

Major Descriptors: *CATTLE -- RADIATION MONITORING; *SHEEP -- RADIATION
MONITORING; *THYROID -- RADIOACTIVITY
Descriptors: ARIZONA; FALLOUT; IODINE 131; MARSHALL ISLANDS; MILK; NUCLEAR
EXPLOSIONS; OHIO; OREGON; PENNSYLVANIA; RADIATION DOSES
Broader Terms: ANIMALS; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY
RADIOISOTOPES; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BODY; BODY FLUIDS; CENTRAL REGION;
DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; DOMESTIC ANIMALS; DOSES; ENDOCRINE GLANDS;
EXPLOSIONS; FOOD; GLANDS; GREAT LAKES REGION; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI;
IODINE ISOTOPES; ISLANDS; ISOTOPES; MAMMALS; MATERIALS; MICRONESIA;
MONITORING; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEI; OCEANIA; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; ORGANS;
PACIFIC NORTHWEST REGION; RADIOISOTOPES; RUMINANTS; USA; VERTEBRATES;
WESTERN REGION

Explosions & Explosives

10/5/810

00732817

(Item 510 from file:

103)

BRA; 06-014758; EDB-81-041072

Title: Environmental surveillance in the Marshall Islands:

of alternative energy sources in the Third World

Author(s):

Greenhouse,

N.A.

Jr.

Affiliation: Brookhaven National Lab.,

Upton,

NY

an application

90039171

Subject Categories: 560172*
-- Radiation Effects -- Nuclide Kinetics &
Toxicology -- Animals -- (-1987)
510302
-- Environment, Terrestrial -- Radioactive Materials Monitoring
& Transport -- Terrestrial Ecosystems & Food Chains -- (-1987)
450200
-- Military Technology, Weaponry, & National Defense -- Nuclear

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