—~ ee ee eee wee ee ee ee ee eH em ee tty & Transport -- Terrestrial Ecosystems & Food Chains -- (-1987) -- Environment, Aquatic -- Radioactive Materials Monitoring & 520302 Transport -- Aquatic Ecosystems & Food Chains -- (~1987) -- Environment, Atmospheric -- Radioactive Materials Monitoring 500300 & Transport -- (-1989) -- Military Technology, Weaponry, & National Defense -- Nuclear 450200 Explosions & Explosives 10/5/758 00840580 Author(s): (Item 458 from file: 103) ERA-07-005580; INS-82-001050; Conard, R.A.; Paglia, D.E.; EDB-82-015417 Larsen, P.R. Title: Review of medical findings in a Marshallese population twenty-six years after accidental exposure to radioactive fallout Corporate Source: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA) Publication Date: Jan 1980 p 152 Report Number(s): Order Number: BNL-51261 DE82003249 Contract Number (DOE): Document Type: Report; Language: English Journal Announcement: AC02-76CH00016 Numerical data EDB8112 Availability: NTIS, PC AO8/MF AOl. Subfile: INS (US Atomindex input); (Technical Information Center). ERA (Energy Research Abstracts); TIC Country of Origin: United States Major Descriptors: *HUMAN POPULATIONS -- DELAYED RADIATION EFFECTS; *HUMAN POPULATIONS -- BARLY RADIATION EFFECTS; *MARSHALL ISLANDS -- RADIATION ACCIDENTS Descriptors: CHROMOSOMAL ABERRATIONS; CONTAMINATION; DATA COMPILATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE PATHWAY; FALLOUT; FISSION PRODUCTS; NEOPLASMS; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; PARASITES; RADIATION DOSES; RADIATION MONITORING; THYROID Broader Terms: ACCIDENTS; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; BODY; DATA; DISEASES; DOSES; ENDOCRINE GLANDS; EXPLOSIONS; GLANDS; INFORMATION; ISLANDS; ISOTOPES; MATERIALS; MICRONESIA; MONITORING; MUTATIONS; NUMERICAL DATA; OCEANIA; ORGANS; POPULATIONS; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS Subject Categories: 560151* INIS Subject Categories: C15* -- Radiation Effects on Animals -- Man -- Effects of External Radiation on Man 1 10/5/759 00839873 Title: (Item 459 from file: EDB-82-014710 103) Rain from South and snow from North Author(s): Miyake, Y. 99039349 Country of Publication: United States Abstract: In March 1954, radioactive debris from a thermonuclear weapon test at Bikini Atoll deviated from predicted trajectories and contaminated several atolls in the northern Marshall Islands. As a result, 239 native inhabitants of these islands along with 28 American servicemen and 23 Japanese fishermen received variably severe exposures to diverse ionizing radiations. Fallout material consisted largely of mixed fission products with small amounts of neutron-induced radionuclides and minimal amounts of fissionable elements, producing a complex spectrum of electromagnetic and particulate radiation. Individuals were exposed to deeply penetrating, whole-body gamma irradiation, to internal radiation emitters assimilated either by inhalation or by ingestion of contaminated water and food, and to direct radiation from material accumulating on body surfaces. That accident initiated a cascade of events, medical, social and political, which continue in varying forms to this day. Most of these have been discussed in the open medical literature and in periodic reports issued by the medical team headquartered at Brookhaven National Laboratory. This report attempts to summarize some of the principal findings of medical significnce that have been observed during the subsequent 26 years with particular emphasis on the last six years.;