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(2)

the BRAVO fallout

people. “Tentative results indicate thyroid doses were underestimated for the.
Rongelap people by a factor of 2 to 10.
Thyroid nodule incidence will be

evaluated. in terms of new estimates for thyroid absorbed dose

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Research carried

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for

which fell on a Japanese fishing vessel in the vicinity of RongePap Atoll on
March 1, 1954, (3) weather and source-term data for BRAVO coupled with current
fallout transport and deposition models and (4) evaluation of the radioiodine
analysis of the single initial pooled urine sample reported for the Rongelap

populations.

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analysis

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the

auspices

of

the

Contract NO. DE-ACO2~76CHO0016.
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U.S.

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Energy,

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