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Ecosystems
-- Environmental aspects of radioactive effluent from existing
C5220
nuclear installations
-- Waste Disposal
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Author(s): James, R.A.
Title: Estimate of radiation dose to thyroids of the Rongelap children
following the Bravo event
Corporate
Source:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab.,
CA
(USA)
Publication Date: 16 Dec 1964
p 10
Report Number(s):
UCRL-12273
Order Number: DE86008167
Contract Number (DOE): W-7405-ENG-48
Note: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
Document Type:
Report
Language: English
Journal Announgement:
ERA8605
Availability: NTIS, PC AO02/MF AOl;
16.
Subfile:
ERA
(Energy
Research Abstracts); NTS (NTIS).
TIC (Technical
Information Center)
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Publication: United States
Abstract: An estimate is made of the radiation dose to the thyroids of
Rongelap children following the Bravo event of March 1, 1954. The
available experimental data are used to estimate the dose under two
alternate assumptions of mode of intake: (1) all of the intake was by
inhalation, and (2) all of the intake was by oral ingestion. It is
concluded that the most probable dose to the thyroid of a 3- to
4-year-old girl is in the range 700 to 1400 rad.
Major Descriptors:
DOSES
Descriptors:
*MARSHALL
CASTLE PROJECT;
ISLANDS
-- CHILDREN;
CONTAMINATION;
*THYROID
-- RADIATION
FALLOUT
Broader Terms: AGE GROUPS; BODY; DOSES; ENDOCRINE GLANDS; EXPLOSIONS;
GLANDS; ISLANDS; MICRONESIA; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; OCEANIA; ORGANS
Subject Categories: 560161*
-- Radionuclide Effects, Kinetics, &
Toxicology -- Man
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Title:
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INS-86~013693; EDB-86-081884
Late radiation effects in Marshall Islanders exposed to fallout 28
years ago
Author(s):
Conard,
R.A.;
Boice,
J.D.
Jr.;
Fraumeni,
J.F.
Jr.
(eds.)
Affiliation: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY
Title: Radiation carcinogenesis: epidemiology and biological significance
Publisher:
Raven Press,New York, NY
Publication Date: 1984
p 57-71
Document Type: Analytic of a Book
Language: English
Journal Announcement: ERA8605
Subfile:
ERA (Energy Research Abstracts); INS (US Atomindex input).
JMT
(DOE contractor)
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Publication: United States
’
Abstract: In 1954,
following detonation of a megaton nuclear device at
Bikini, an unfortunate accident occurred owing to an unpredicted shift
in winds resulting in exposure to radioactive fallout of 250
Marshallese people, 28 American servicemen on atolls to the east, and
23 Japanese fishermen on their fishing vessel. In this presentation,
medical findings in the exposed Marshallese noted over the past 28
years is briefly reviewed with particular emphasis on late effects on
the thyroid gland. The Marshallese were too far distant from the
detonation for any direct effects, and their exposure was due entirely
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