Incorporated of Long Island, New York.
A second, sch more comprehensive repert
entitled "Some Effects of Ionizing Radiation or. Human Beings,"
July, 1956, by the United States Atomic Energy Commission.
was published in
Thereafter,
the
major data published on the people of Rongelap and Utirik was the result of
surveys conducted by Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).
The reports were
published after three years (March 1957), four years (1958), five and six years
(one report covering 1959-60), seven years (1961), eight years (1962), nine and
(The report covering the years 1970-1972 will be published
sometime during 1973.)
Contained in the reports are descriptions of the annual
surveys and general findings of the doctors who accompanied the team.
A great
number of articles have also been published in journals and periodicals by
participating doctors as a result of their findings in examinations.
From the first year report, to the most recent BNL report, the size,
More specifically, the first report considered general physical conditions,
with special emphasis on effects on the skin, blood, and eyes of the irradiated
Marshallese.
The 1969 report, however, gives a description of general medical
findings from physical examinations, and then very detailed descriptions of
examinations and findings in the following areas:
ophthalmological (eye),
thyroid, aging, blood (both chemical factors and chromosome aberrations) as
90
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includes the results of three annual examinations and numerous appendices.
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in the twelve-month report to 128 in the latest report, which, of course,
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this can be seen by an increase in the number of pages,
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sophistication and scope of the examinations and findings have increased greatly.
Pomegtsg
1967, 1968, 1969).
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covering 1965-66), and thirteen, fourteen and fifteen years (one report covering
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ten years (one report covering 1963-64), eleven and twleve years (one report