Publication Date: 1958
422 p.
Publ: United States Atomic Energy Commission
Journal Announcement: NSA12

Availability: U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington

Document Type: Book
Language: English
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Brief reports are given of developments in raw materials, special nuclear
materials. military applications, international activities, commercial and
isotope development, legal aspects, inspection, reactor development,
classification and declassification, information activities, education and
training, physical research, biology and medicine, nuclear materials
management, -construction and supply, community aciivities, new
headquarters, and organization and personnel. The AEC controlled
thermonuclear fusion program is described in detail, the four major
.approaches to the problem being discussed. Appendixes
are given
summarizing or tabulating information on personnel, isotopes,
installations, publications regulations, licenses. and including remarks
on: precautions for Eniwetok tests. domestic mining and milling
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problems. Radioactive fall-out.

the Oak Ridge nuclear incident.

Descriptor Groups

(Splits):

seismological detonations. Euratom, arid
(T.R.H.)

BIBLIOGRAPHY --ECONOMICS--INSPECTION--

ISOTOPES - -PERSONNEL- -PLANNING- ~REACTORS--TABLES--USES

BIBLIOGRAPHY --BIOLOGY--MEDICINE--RADIOBIOLOGY--TABLES
BIBLIOGRAPHY --CONTROL--TABLES--THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES--THERMONUCLEAR
REACTIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY --FALLOUT--NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS--RADIOACTIVITY--SEISMOLOGY-TABLES --TESTING
BIBLIOGRAPHY--MINING--ORE PROCESSING--TABLES
ACCIDENTS - -BIBLIOGRAPHY--REACTORS--TABLES

Subject Codes

(NSA):

GENERAL

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MARCH 1957 MEDICAL SURVEY OF RONGELAP AND UTIRIK PEOPLE THREE YEARS AFTER
EXPOSURE TO RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT
Conard, R.A.; Meyer, L.M.; Rall, J.E.; Lowery, A.; Bach, S.A.; Cannon, B.

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Carter, E.L.; Eicher, M.; Hechter, H.
Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, N.Y.
Publication Date: June 1958
29 p.
Primary Report No.: BNL-501
Journal Announcement: NSA12
Availability: NTIS

Document Type: Report

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that all the irradiated Marshellese people were making satisfactory
recovery from their radiation exposure.

(C.H.)

Descriptors:
AGE; ENVIRONMENT; FALLOUT; MAN; MEDICINE; POPULATIONS;
RADIATION DOSES; RADIATION EFFECTS; RECOVERY; SEX; STATISTICS
Subject Codes (NSA): BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE

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PERSISTENCE OF RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION IN ANIMALS OF MARSHALL ISLANDS

TWO YEARS AFTER OPERATION CASTLE.
The Shorter-Term Biological Hazards of
a Fallout Field
Cohn, S.H.; Dunning, G.M.; Hilcken, J.A. eds.
U. S. Naval Radiological Defense Lab., San Francisco

9003633

Language: English
Marshallese people exposed to radioactive fall-out three years
previously. Examinations were carried out on 82 people from Rongelap who
had been exposed to the heaviest fall-out, and on a comparison population
of unexposed Rongelap people matched for age and sex. The survey showed

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