Order number 940330-160606-96 ~001-001 page 28 set 11 with 111 of 111 items PAGE RANGE PUB. DATE ABSTRACT Seattle (YYMMDD) (USA)]; Greenhouse, 716-717, Paper INOR 717 N.A. } 890000 : 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 EDB Item 38 ANALYTIC TITLE ENGLISH Overview of the radiological accidents ANALYTIC AUTHOR/AFFIL PAGE RANGE PUB. DATE (YYMMDD) LIMITATION CODE ABSTRACT updated December 1989 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).