Transport -- Water -- 10/5/662 (1987) (Item 362 from file: 103) 01488590 BRA-10-O001186; EDB-84-186399 Title: Intercomparison of natural and technologically enhanced background radiation levels in Micronesia . Author(s): Greenhouse, N.A.; Miltenberger, R.P.; Vohra, K.G.; Mishra, U.C.; Pallai, K.C.; Sadasivan, S. (eds.) Affiliation: Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA Title: Natural radiation environment Conference Title: 2. special symposium on natural radiation environment Conference Location: Bombay, India Conference Date: 19 Jan 1981 Publisher: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.,New York, NY, USA Publication Date: 1982 p 452-458 Report Number(s): CONF-810153Document Type: Analytic of a Book; Conference literature Language: English Journal Announcement: INS8411 Subfile: INS (US Atomindex input); ERA (Energy Research Abstracts). Country of Origin: United States Country of Publication: United States Abstract: The United States Pacific Nuclear Testing Program resulted in local and regional fallout contamination of islands in the central Pacific basin, in an area which is generically known as Micronesia. é Since all of the Marshall Islands are low coral islands or atolls, natural radioactivity content of their soil is among the lowest on the earth. In contrast, the high islands of the Caroline groups, to the west of the Marshalls, are characterized by volcanic soils having a significant complement of radionuclides of the uranium and thorium chains. Several field trips between 1975 and 1980 have afforded opportunities to study the natural radiation environments of the coral atolis of the Marshalls and several high islands in the Carolines. The results of these studies have indicated that significant contributions from radioactive fallout can be evaluated in-situ with relative ease on coral islands. In contrast, the higher natural radioactivity content of high island soils, as well as the greater distance of these islands from the test areas, combine to make evaluations of local fallout contributions from US Pacific tests indistinguishable from the contributions of the world-wide fallout.; Major Descriptors: *BACKGROUND RADIATION -- ORIGIN; *BACKGROUND RADIATION -- RADIATION MONITORING; *LOCAL FALLOUT -- RADIATION MONITORING; *MICRONESIA -- BACKGROUND RADIATION; *NATURAL RADIOACTIVITY -RADIATION MONITORING Descriptors: NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; RESPONSE MODIFYING FACTORS; SOILS Broader Terms: EXPLOSIONS; FALLOUT; ISLANDS; MONITORING; OCEANIA; RADIATIONS; RADIOACTIVITY Subject Categories: 510301* Materials Monitoring & INIS Subject Categories: transport Soil Terrestrial -- Radioactive -- (-1987) # -- Radioactive materials monitoring & (Item 363 from file: 103) Adams, W.A. W.H.; Harper, J.A.; Rittmaster, R.S.; Heotis, P.M.; Title: Medical status of Marshallese accidentally exposed to 1954 Bravo fallout’ radiation: Corporate Source: Publication Date: Report Number(s): Order Number: January 1980-December 1982 Brookhaven National Lab., 1984 p 25 BNL-51761 DE84017140 Contract Number (DOE): ACOZ2-76CHO0016 Document Type: Report; Numerical data Language: English Journal Announcement: ERA8410 Availability: NTIS, PC A02/MF AOl. Upton, NY (USA) 0 EDB-84-160197 zona Author(s): scott, B3110* ~-- Joa UG 10/5/663 01462392 -- Environment, Transport