dose equivalent of 2.8 rem.;
Major Descriptors: *BIKINI -- RADIATION MONITORING;
RADIATION DOSES

*HUMAN POPULATIONS ~~

Descriptors: DATA COMPILATION; ISLANDS; TABLES
Broader Terms: DATA; DATA FORMS; DOSES; INFORMATION; ISLANDS; MARSHALL
ISLANDS; MICRONESIA; MONITORING; NUMERICAL DATA; OCEANIA; POPULATIONS
Subject Categories: 560151*
-- Radiation Effects on Animals -- Man
INIS Subject Categories: C15*
-- Effects of External Radiation on Man

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00541146
AIX-10-444840; EDB-79-120612
Title: Uranium-series dating of insular phosphorite from Ebon atoll,
Micronesia

Author(s): Veeh, H.H. (Flinders Univ. of South Australia, Bedford Park);
Burnett, W.C.
Source: Nature (London) (United Kingdom)
v 274:5670.
Coden: NATUA

Publication Date: 3 Aug 1978
Document Type: Journal Article
Language: English
Journal Announcement: EDB7905
Subfile:

AIX

p 460-462

(non-US Atomindex input) .

Country of Origin:

United Kingdom

Abstract: None;
Major Descriptors: *MARSHALL ISLANDS -- GEOLOGIC DEPOSITS; *PHOSPHORITES -ISOTOPE DATING; *THORIUM 230 -- ISOTOPE DATING; *URANIUM 234 -~- ISOTOPE
DATING
Descriptors: APATITES; ISOTOPE RATIO; X-RAY DIFFRACTION
Broader Terms: ACTINIDE ISOTOPES; ACTINIDE NUCLEI; AGE ESTIMATION; ALPHA
DECAY RADIOCISOTOPES; COHERENT SCATTERING; DIFFRACTION; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI
; HEAVY NUCLEI; ISLANDS; ISOTOPES; MICRONESIA; MINERALS; NUCLEI;
OCEANIA; RADIOISOTOPES; ROCKS; SCATTERING; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; THORIUM
ISOTOPES; URANIUM ISOTOPES; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES

Subject Categories: 580100*
-- Geology & Hydrology -INIS Subject Categories: B31*
-- Land

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00533578
EDB-79-113043
Title: Micronesia:
America’s strategic trust

Author(s):

Johnson,

G.

Source: Bull. At. Sci. (United States)
v 35:2.
Coden: BASIA
Publication Date: Feb 1979
p 10-15
Document Type: Journal Article
Language: English
Journal Announcement: EDB7910
Subfile:
TIC (Technical Information Center).
Country of Origin: United States
Abstract: Operation Crossroads by the US was designed to test the
destructive power of nuclear weapons. The inhabitants on Bikihi and
Enewetak were moved to uninhabited atolls

in the Marshall

Islands,

devastated the islands.

the US detonated Bravo,

with

the promise from the US that they would be returned to their islands.
During the next 12 years, about 70 atomic and hydrogen bomb blasts
1954,

the

in some cases,

their medical problems,

the United States are discussed.

(MCW);

and trust

funds

instituted by

9008 OHI

On March 1,

first test of a deliverable hydrogen bomb, exposing the Japanese
fishermen on the Lucky Dragon add and the inhabitants of Rongelap and
Utirik islands to radiation. The struggle of all these islanders being
moved from their homelands, their return to contaminated environments

Major Descriptors: *NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS -- ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS; *NUCLEAR
EXPLOSIONS -- RADIATION EFFECTS
.
Descriptors: AGREEMENTS; BIKINI; ENIWETOK; MARSHALL ISLANDS; POPULATION
RELOCATION; RADIATION DOSES; RADIATION INJURIES; SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS
; TESTING; USA
Broader Terms: BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; DOSES;
EXPLOSIONS; INJURIES; INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS; ISLANDS; MARSHALL ISLANDS;
MICRONESIA; NORTH AMERICA; OCEANIA; RADIATION EFFECTS

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