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Document Type: Report
Language: English
Results are summarized from a medical survey carried out in March 1958 on
inhabitants of the Rongelap Islands exposed to accidental fall-out
radiation during Operation Castle in the spring of 1954.
The habigtation of
these people on Rengelap Island affords the opportunity for a most valuable
ecological radiation study on human beings. The various radionuclides
present on the island can be traced from the soil through the food and into
the human being, where the tissue and organ distributions, biological
half-times, and excretion rates can be studied. No apparent acute or
subacute effects were found at this time related to the gamma dose of 175 r
received, with the possible exception of hemopoietic findings indicating a
persisting lag in complete recovery of platelet levels of the peripheral
blood. In the males these mean levels were 11 to 16% and in the females 9%
below the corresponding mean levels of the comparison population. History
and physical examinations revealed no clinical evidence of any illness or
findings during the past year or at the time of the survey which could be
related to whole-body exposure. Estimates of body burdens of radionuclides
were determined by gamma spectroscopy and by radiochemical analyses of
urine saniples. Thcse measurements showed an increasc in the body burden of
cesium-137, strontium-90, and zinc-65. Surveys were also made on the
incidence of intestinal parasites, and on blood groups and anthropological
background of the Marshallese.
(For preceding period see BNL-501.)
(C.H.)
Descriptor Groups (Splits):
BLOOD--BLOOD FORMATION--BODY--DISTRIBUTION
-~FALLOUT--FOOD--GAMMA RADIATION--HALF-LIFE--ISLANDS--MAN--MEDICINE-METABOLISM--NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS--PACIFIC OCEAN--PLATELETS--POPULATIONS-PROJECT CASTLE--QUANTITY RATIO--RADIATION DOSES--RADIATION EFFECTS-RADIOISOTOPES--SEX--SOILS~-TISSUES--VARIATIONS
ANTIGENS --BIOLOGY--BLOOD--BLOOD GROUPS--BODY--CESIUM 137--GAMMA RADIATION
--IMMUNITY--INTESTINE--MAN--MARSHALL ISLANDS--MEASURED VALUES--PARASITES-POPULATIONS~--QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS-~QUANTITY RATIO--RADIOCHEMISTRY-RADIOISOTOPES--SPECTROSCOPY--STRONTIUM 90--URINE--VARIATIONS--ZINC 65
Subject Codes
10/5/212
105758
(NSA): BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
{Item 212 from file:
NSA-13-012407
109)
THE RADIATION DAMAGE FROM LOCAL FALL-OUT IN THE JAPANESE
BIKINI WITH SPECIAL CONSIDERATION OF THE ONE FATALITY
Keim,
FISHERMEN NEAR
H.
Univ. of Freiburg i. B.
Strahlentherapie
(West Germany)
Publication Date: (1959) Apr.
Coden: STRAA
v 108.
602-8 p.
Note: 0039-2073
Journal Announcement: NSA13
Document Type: Journal Article
Language:
~
German
The radiation damage of the Japanese fishermen near Bikini, caused by
local fall-out is described, taking into consideration the possible cause
of death of the one fatal case.
(auth)
Descriptors:
BIKINI; CONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENT; FALLOUT; JAPAN;
NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; PERSONNEL; POPULATIONS; RADIATION INJURIES; SEA
Subject Codes (NSA): BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
10/5/213
105107
(Item 213 from file:
NSA-13-011756
109)
RADIOBIOLOGICAL STUDIES AT ENIWETOK BEFORE AND AFTER MIKE SHOT
Donaldson, L.R.
Washington.
Univ., Seattle.
Publication Date: June 1953
Primary Report No.: WT-616
Note: Project 11.5
of
Applied Fisheries Lab.
98 p.
OPERATION Ivy 90360 0
Journal Announcement: NSA13
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