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A USFHS rad-chem laboratory was established in Honolulu,
vy Hawali to support the off-site rad-safe program. Facilities,
— 23equipment and personne] were available for: radiochemical
*-28S analysis of air, precipitation, water,milk, food andsoil, The
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: The: bicenvironmental program for Operation. Dominic was
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- .DOBE: A (total or accumulated) quantity of fonising ‘or nuclear) radiation.
Phe term deve is often used in the sense of the exposure duse, expressed in
it voentgens, which is o measure of the total amount of lunization that the |;
are qeentity of radiation covid produce in sir. This should be distinguished .
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» efrom the absorbed dose, given in reps or rade, which repreacnts the energy °
=, “absorbed from the radiation per grom of specified body tissue.
Further, .
‘PRehe blological dose, in treme, ty a messure of the biclogici) cfTectivensee i
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POSE RATE: As a ceneral rule, the amount of ionising (or nuclear) radiation” |
“lected: by this group, USPHS off-site monitors furnished sam-
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af. “BIOLOGICAL HALF-TIME: The time required for the emount of a specified <4
~:islands and Christmas Island to ascertain the radionuclide
content of the samples collected. In addition to samples col-
urned
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_ istuifs, marine life included, were made from ‘right off-site
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radioactive et however. a majority of the samples
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‘BACKGROUND RADIATION: Nuclear (or ionizing) tadiation: anaing from
_tdawithin the body and from the surroundings to whieh individuals are alweye 5
ap @apoeed, The main saurces of the natural background radiution are pulse :|
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“and at Other Islands of the Central Pacific During Operation
"? Dominic, 1962," UWFL-87, by Ralph Palumbo. ~
_ During the period April 7to July 29, 1962, collections of food-
. periods. Part of these samples were scanned promr ly for
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i; Seattle, Wash. A final report of their data is found in “Radionuclide Content of Foodstuffs Collected at Christinas Island
ples from areas not covered by the University of Washington
‘scientists. Approximately 8,000 samples were collected duringthe time which covered pre-testing, testing and post-teating
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“EXPOSURE, EXTERNAL: Exposure to radiation that is dviivered from a
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FALLOUT: The process ar phenomenon of the fallbeck to tac earth's surfars 5
of particies contaminated with radivaclive meteria! fiom the redio. active cloud. The term je also applied in & collective score lv the contami: 4
- Hated particulate matter iteslf. Tne carly (or lueal) sallset is defined, some
what arbitrarily, as those particles whieh reach the earl sifhin ¥4 houre j
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after oe nucleer explenion. The delayed (ar world-wide: saliva? conseate of
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the emalier particles which ascend into the wpper Wroporpiiert and
fallout is brought to earth, mainly by rein and anow, over extended periods |
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ranging from months tn years.
FISSION PRODUCTS: A general term for the comples mixture of aubatances |
produced asa result of nuclear healan. A distharction aba oli made between:
these and the d-re:! fesion products or fasion faginests vtich ave formed !
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