Document Type:

Journal Article;

Numerical data

Language: English
Journal Announcement: EDB8407
Subfile:
ERA (Energy Research Abstracts).
Country of Origin: United States
Abstract: From June 1946 to August 1958, the U.S. Department of Defense and
the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) conducted nuclear weapons tests
in the Northern Marshall Islands. On 1 March 1954, BRAVO, an
above-ground test in the Castle series, produced high levels of
radioactive material, some of which subsequently fell on Rongelap and
Utirik Atolls due to an unexpected wind shift. On 3 March 1954, the
inhabitants of these atolls were moved out of the affected area. They
later returned to Utirik in June 1954 and to Rongelap in June 1957.
Comprehensive environmental and personnel radiological monitoring
programs were initiated in the mid 1950s by Brookhaven National
Laboratory to ensure that body burdens of the exposed Marshallese
subjects remained within AEC guidelines. Their body-burden histories
and calculated activity ingestion rate patterns post-return are
presented along with estimates of internal committed effective dose
equivalents.

External exposure data are also included.

In addition,

relationships between body burden or urine-activity concentration and

declining continuous intake were developed.;

Major Descriptors: *CESIUM 137 -- BODY BURDEN; *COBALT 60 -- BODY BURDEN;
*MARSHALL ISLANDS -- RADIATION MONITORING; *STRONTIUM 90 -- BODY BURDEN
7 *ZINC 65 -- BODY BURDEN
Descriptors: DOSE EQUIVALENTS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FALLOUT; FISHES; NUCLEAR
EXPLOSIONS; RADIATION DOSES; URINE
Broader Terms: ALKALI METAL ISOTOPES; ALKALINE EARTH ISOTOPES; ANIMALS;
AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY
RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-PLUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS;
BIOLOGICAL WASTES; BODY FLUIDS; CESIUM ISOTOPES; COBALT ISOTOPES; DATA;
DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; DOSES; ELECTRON CAPTURE RADIOISOTOPES;
EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; EVEN-ODD NUCLEI; EXPLOSIONS; INFORMATION;
INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; INTERNAL CONVERSION RADIOISOTOPES; ISLANDS;
ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; MATERIALS; MICRONESIA; MINUTES
LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; MONITORING; NUCLEI; NUMERICAL DATA; OCEANIA;
ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; ODD-ODD NUCLEI; RADIOISOTOPES; STRONTIUM ISOTOPES;
VERTEBRATES; WASTES; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; ZINC ISOTOPES

Subject Categories: 560161*
Toxicology -- Man

Author(s):

(Item 370 from file:
EDB-84-102236
Sehmel,

G.A.

Hilton Head Island,

1983
Publication Date: Apr 1984
Order Number:

WA

(USA)

(DOE):

SC,

~
Conference Date:

USA

7 Nov

p 38

PNL-SA-11792;

DE84011903

Contract Number

Richland,

6. workshop on environmental research for actinide

elements
Conference Location:

Report Number(s):

&

103)

Title: Transuranic resuspension
Corporate Source:
Pacific Northwest Lab.,

Conference Title:

Kinetics,

CONF-8311110-4

AC06-76RL01830

Note: Portions are illegible in microfiche products
Document Type: Report; Conference literature
Language: English
Journal Announcement: ERA8406

Availability: NTIS, PC A03/MF AOl;
1.
Subfile:
ERA
(Energy Research Abstracts);
(NTIS).

INS

(US Atomindex input); NTS

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Publication:

United States

Abstract: Characteristics of aged resuspension sources are more uncertain

than those of new resuspension sources, which can be investigated using
inert-particle controlled-tracer sources. Even though airborne

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