1978-31 October 1984
Corporate Source:
National Research Council,
Publication Date: May 1985
p 102
Washington,
DC
(USA)
Report Number(s):
DOB/EV/01577-1
Order Number: DE85013516
Contract Number
(DOE): AT08-78EVO0O1577
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Document Type: Report
Language: English
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Journal Announcement: ERA8507
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Subfile:
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(Energy Research Abstracts);
NTS
(NTIS);
INS
(US Atomindex
input).
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Publication: United States
Abstract: A study of mortality, by cause of death, was done on a cohort of
46,186 participants in one or more of five test series. The series
studied were UPSHOT-KNOTHOLE (1953) and PLUMBBOB (1957) at the Nevada
Test Site, and GREENHOUSE (1951), CASTLE (1954), and REDWING (1956)
which were conducted at the Pacific Proving Ground at Enewetak and
Bikini. The participants were traced individually by the use of
Veterans Administration records. For the participants in each series,
the number of deaths attributed to particular causes was compared with
the number expected to occur at US cause- and age-specific mortality
rates. A total of 5113 deaths from all causes was ascertained; this was
11.1% of the number of participants. The number was, however, only
83.5% of the number expected at US mortality rates. Mortality from
leukemia among the 3554 participants at SMOKY - 10 deaths below age 85
- were 2.5 times the expected number. When the leukemia deaths are
compared to other deaths in all six data sets, the differences among
the series are not significant. No cancer other than leukemia was
ascertained to have occurred in significant excess among SMOKY
participants
and the number of deaths from other cancers
(67)
was less
than the number expected at population rates (83.8). The total body of
evidence cannot convincingly either affirm or deny that the higher than
statistically expected incidence of leukemia among SMOKY participants
{or of prostate cancer among REDWING participants) is the result of
radiation exposure incident to the tests. 19 refs., 27 tabs.
Major Descriptors: *MILITARY PERSONNEL -- DELAYED RADIATION EFFECTS
Descriptors: BIKINI; CASTLE PROJECT; ENIWETOK; GREENHOUSE PROJECT; LEUKEMIA
; MORTALITY; NEVADA TEST SITE; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; SMOKY EVENT; UPSHOT
PROJECT
Broader Terms: ATMOSPHERIC EXPLOSIONS; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; BIOLOGICAL
RADIATION EFFECTS; DISEASES; EXPLOSIONS; HEMIC DISEASES; ISLANDS;
MARSHALL ISLANDS; MICRONESIA; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; NEOPLASMS;
NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; OCEANIA; PERSONNEL; PLUMBBOB PROJECT; RADIATION
EFFECTS; US DOE; US ORGANIZATIONS
subject Categories: 560151*
-- Radiation Effects on Animals -- Man
INIS Subject Categories: C1500*
-- Effects of External Radiation on Man
10/5/629
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01593355
AIX-16-050004; EDB-85-106135
Title: Redistribution of fallout radionuclides in Enewetak Atoll lagoon
sediments by callianassid bioturbation
Author(s): McMurtry, G.M.;
Schneider, R.C. (Hawaii Univ., Honolulu (USA).
Hawaii Inst. of Geophysics);
Colin, P.L. (Hawaii Inst. of Marine
Biology, Honolulu (USA));
Buddemeier, R.W. (California Univ.,
Livermore
(USA).
Dickinson Univ.,
source:
Nature
Lawrence Livermore Lab.});
St.
(London)
Croix,
Virgin Islands
(United Kingdom)
Suchanek,
T.H.
(Fairleigh
(USA). West Indies Lab.)
v 313:6004.
Coden:
NATUA
Publication Date: 21 Feb 1985
p 674-677
Document Type: Journal Article; Numerical data
Language: English
Journal Announcement: EDB8507
Country of Origin: United States
Abstract: The lagoon sediments of Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands
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