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This is in response to your letter of November Ma, 1974, in which ‘you
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men who participated in Pacific nuclear tests. The Energy Research
and Development Administration (ERDA), which assumed the AEC's research |
_ and development functions on January 19 of this year, is grateful for
_ your expression of interest. The delay in this response was due to
a need to search old files to seek relevant information concerning
the Pacific tests.
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On the other hand, any follow-up ‘relative ‘to “radiation exposure of
servicemen would be a responsibility of the Department of Defense. |
To our knowledge, however, no follow-up study of servicemen who -
‘participated in Operation Crossroads has been undertaken by DOD.
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However, AEC and certain of its contractors have maintained files
_ of radiation exposures that occurred during some Pacific tests. Our .
investigation of those files as-well as the recollection of a person
who participared in the radiation safety program for those tests
indicate that exposures were insignificant during Operation Crossroads.
Furthermore, proximity to a vessel containing a test device prior to |
detonation would not have involved an appreciable exposure. For these
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