Title: Medical basis for radiation accident preparedness Conference Title: Radiation accident preparedness conference Conference Location: Oak Ridge, TN, USA Conference Date: 19 Oct 1979 Publisher: Elsevier North Holland, Publication Date: 1980 p 33-54 Report Number(s): CONF~-791085Document Type: Analytic of a Book; Language: English Inc.,New York, NY Conference literature Journal Announcement: EDB8103 TIC (Technical Information Research Abstracts); (Energy ERA Subfile: Center). Country of Origin: Japan Country of Publication: United States Abstract: Medical surveillance of Japanese fisherman exposed to fallout from a thermonuclear test explosion in 1954 is reported for a twenty-five year period. Internal and external dose estimates are discussed in light of radiochemical analysis of urine, thyroid glands, and organs of fatal cases along with medical records of biological radiation effects to skin, hematological system, bone marrow, spermatocytes, eyes, thyroid, and liver. (DLS); Major Descriptors: *FALLOUT -- MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE; *PERSONNEL -- BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS Descriptors: ABSCESSES; BIKINI; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXTERNAL IRRADIATION; FISHING INDUSTRY; ICRP CRITICAL GROUP; RADIATION ACCIDENTS; RADIATION DOSES; RADIOACTIVE CLOUDS; RADIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; RADIONUCLIDE KINETICS; SKIN 7; THYROID; URINE; WORKING CONDITIONS Broader Terms: ACCIDENTS; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOLOGICAL WASTES; BODY; BODY FLUIDS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLOUDS; DOSES; ENDOCRINE GLANDS; GLANDS; INDUSTRY; IRRADIATION; ISLANDS; MARSHALL ISLANDS; MATERIALS; MICRONESIA; OCEANIA; ORGANS; PATHOLOGICAL CHANGES; QUANTITATIVE CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; RADIATION EFFECTS; SURVEILLANCE; WASTES Subject Categories: 560151* -- Radiation Effects on Animals -- Man 552000 -- Public Heaith 10/5/814 00727075 (Item 514 from file: EDB-81-035329 103) Title: Operation Hardtack. Volume II. Radiological safety. version. Final report Corporate Source: Publication Date: General Electric Co., 1 Oct 1979 p 161 Santa Barbara, CA Extracted (USA) Report Number(s): AD-A-085318 Contract Number (DOE): DNA001-79-C-0455 Document Type: Report Language: English Journal Announcement: EDB8009 Availability: NTIS, MF AOl. Subfile: NTS (NTIS). Country of Origin: United States Country of Publication: United States Abstract: This is the final report of the RADSAFE operation during the HARDTACK Series of nuclear tests in the Pacific. fallout is presented. ; Forecast and actual NUCLEAR EXPLOSIVES; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PERSONNEL; RADIATION DOSES; RADIATION MONITORING Broader Terms: DOSES; EXPLOSIONS; EXPLOSIVES; HAZARDS; HEALTH HAZARDS; ISLANDS; MARSHALL ISLANDS; OCEANIA; SAFETY Subject Categories: 10/5/815 00727074 Author(s): 560151* MICRONESIA; MONITORING; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; -- Radiation Effects on Animals -- Man a (Item 515 from file: 103) BRA-06-011631; EDB-81-035328 Bond, V.P.; Conard, R.A.; Robertson, J.S.; Weden, B.A. Jr. Title: Medical examination of Rongelap people six months after exposure to 9003974 Major Descriptors: *HARDTACK PROJECT -- RADIATION HAZARDS Descriptors: BIKINI; ENIWETOK; FALLOUT; METEOROLOGY; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS;