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Atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons ranging from tens
of kT to 15 MT of TNT were conducted by the United
States at two sites in the northern Marshall Islands.
The test areas are now parts of the Republic of the
Marshall Islands. Resolutions of heaith related problems
or property damage resulting from the weapons tests were
assumed by a Nuclear Claims Tribunal which was funded
for this purpose. This paper describes the results of a
survey conducted in 1988 which was designed to determine
whether a potential connection exists between local
fallout and the incidence of radiogenic disease among
Marshallese residents of islands in the greater vicinity
of the two test areas. Soil samples were collected from
two southern atolls as controls,
and from five northern
sites to look for higher cesium-137 levels which may
have been contributed by tropospheric fallout from the
KEYWORDS
weapons tests.
CESIUM 137/ecological concentration ;MARSHALL
ISLANDS/soil chemistry ;BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS;
HEALTH HAZARDS; LOCAL FALLOUT;NUCLEAR WEAPONS; PERFORMANCE
TESTING
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ANALYTIC TITLE ENGLISH Overview of the radiological accidents
ANALYTIC AUTHOR/AFFIL
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in the world,
Nenot, J.C. [CEA Centre d’Etudes Nucleaires de
Fontenay-aux-Roses, 92 (France). Dept. de Protection
Sanitaire]
1073-1085
900600
UNL
This outline historical review discusses radiological
accidents of two categories: those involving large
groups of the population with relatively low doses, or a
few individuals with high doses resulting in acute
health effects. Comments on the following accidents are
made:
(a)
the Marshallese population and the Japanese
Fisherman, Pacific Ocean 1954 (b) South East Urals USSR
1957 (c) Juarez, Mexico 1983/84 (d) Chernobyl 1986 (e)
Goliania, Brazil 1987. Registration of accidgnts
resulting in high doses to few individuals is also
discussed:-criticality accidents, those resulting in
high whole-body doses from sealed sources, nuclear power
reactor incidents leading to acute doses among workers,
those resulting in localized radiation injury and those
resulting in severe internal exposure.
IO0034b2
(UK).