The NTPR program is making extensive efforts not only to
recover all film badge data, and to cross-check badge readings
among members of units which maneuvered

in close proximity

to each other, but also to reconstruct exposures from original

Gata in order to verify film badge readings and to provide

dose estimates for those individuals whose film badge readings
Initial reconstruction efforts have
cannot be recovered.
For example, Tab D contains an analysis
been quite promising.
of Task Force WARRIOR,

SMOKY.
data

the primary maneuver element at Shot

The close correlation between actual film badge

(575 millirem average)

+ 135 millirem)

and the calculated dosage

(480

gives confidence in film badge accuracy.

(Pages 5-8 of Tab D summarize the findings.)
The NTPR program is also intensively

investigating other

potential types of radiological exposure.
Since film badges
measure only external gamma radiation (and some beta radiation),
the possibility of exposure to prompt neutrons at the instant
of detonation and the possibility of long-term dose commitment

due to inhalation or ingestion of alpha-radiation-emitting
radioisotopes has been a subject of much concern.

Dosage

reconstruction efforts to date indicate that if any significant

neutron exposure occurred,

it was confined to several small,

well-defined groups which are being investigated in great
detail

(Tab E).

Additionally,

all research to date indicates

that internally deposited radionuclides were not a problem
for DoD test participants.
However, since complete resolution
of this issue is vital, this research is being aggressively
continued (Tab F).
In addition to DoD's general public awareness program aimed

at all atmospheric nuclear

test participants,

the NTPR

program has undertaken a specific, individual notification
and medical examination program for all individuals who
received doses in excess of the annual levels allowed by
today's Federal guidelines.
This program has been carried
out in three segments,
below:
In March 1979,

as described

in the three paragraphs

a notification and medical examination program

was initiated for all DoD test participants with cumulative
exposures from atmospheric testing in excess of 25 rem.

The threshold of 25 rem was selected for this pilot program
because it is the current Federal guideline for one-time,

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planned exposures under emergency conditions.
We have identified
a total of 39 DoD personnel in the over-25-rem group, with
exposures ranging from just over 25 rem to a high of 98
rem (Tab G).
Most of these were exposed through an unexpected
wind shift at Shot BRAVO, Bikini, 1954.
Four of the 39

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