Table i.
Some Important Dates in the History of Radioactive Fallout.
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Date
Event
Reference
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1940s
Studies on mtabolism and effects of
internal emitters
Chaps. ¥-IX, this report
1945
Trinity shot, Alamogordo, New Mexico
Smyth, 1946
1985
Local fallout fran Trinity
Glasstone et al., 1950
1945
Fallout fram Trinity {n Indiana
Webb, 1949
1946,48
Pacific testing
Carter and Moghiss{, 1977
1946
1950s
. Local fallout on ships fran Pacific
tests
Glasstone et al.? 1950
Studies on metabolism ant late
Chaps. V-IX, this report
Testing begins et Nevada Test Site
Carter and Moghtsst, 1977
Fallout in precipitation in Michigan,
Montans, and New York
Meinke, 1951; Holter and
Glasscock, 1952; Clark, 1954
1953
Heavy fallout fn Utah
AEC, 1953b
1953
Wide dfstribution of 90Sr in fallout
Teported
Eisenbud and Harley, 1953
Fallout on Marshal lese fran Pacific
AEC, 1955
Serious radiation effects in fall out-
Arnold, 1954
1311 {mn animal thyrotd glands of
Yen Middiesworth, 1954
1985
Congresstonal hearings on fallout
US Congress, 1955
1956
137¢s found tn people
Miller and Marinelli, 1956
1957
Correlation fhown between weapons
Comar et a)., 1957
1951
Ee
1954
1954
1954
effects of internal anitters
test
exposed Japanese fishermen
animals distant from Nevada test site
tests and 13!) ta thyroid glands,
role of cows’ milk in human exposures discussed
19$7
Winiscale reactor eccident
in England
Pisenhut, 3973