Materials Monitoring & Transport -- (1990-)
-- Environment, Terrestrial -~- Radioactive Materials Monitoring
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& Transport -- (1990-)
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-- Radioactive materials monitoring &
transport; meteorology
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-- Radioactive materials monitoring & transport
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EDB-92-052899
Title: Radiological dose assessments in the northern Marshall Islands
(1989--1991)
Author(s) /Editor(s): Sun, L.C.; Meinhold, C.B.; Moorthy, A.R.; Clinton,
J.H.; Kaplan, E.
Corporate Source:
Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)
(Code: 0936000)
Sponsoring Organization:
DOE
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
Conference Title:
8.
conference
international Radiation Protection Association
Conference Location: Montreal
Publication Date:
Dec
Report Number(s):
1991
(Canada)
(4 p)
BNL-45868~-Rev.12/91
Conference Date:
17-22 May 1992
CONF-920501--12-Rev.1
Order Number: DE92007174
Contract Number (DOE): AC02-76CHO00016
Document Type: Report; Conference Literature
Language:
In English
Journal Announcement:
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Country of Origin:
United States
Country of Publication: United States
Abstract: The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) is located in the
central Pacific Ocean about 3500 km southeast of Hawaii and 4500 km
east of Manila, Philippines. It consists of 34 atolls and 2 coral
island,
having a total
land area of about
180 km{sup 2},
distributed
over more than 2.5 {times} 10{sup 6} km{sup 2} of ocean. Between 1946
and 1958 the United States conducted nuclear tests there: 43 at
Enewetak and 23 at Bikini. Thirty-three years after the cessation of
nuclear testing in the RMI, the impact of these operations on the
health and radiological safety of the people living in or planing to
return to their contaminated homelands is still an important concern.
The present Brookhaven National Laboratory
(BNL)
Marshall Islands
Radiological Safety Program (MIRSP) began in 1987 with funding from the
US Department of Energy (DOE). The objectives of the MIRSP are to
determine the radionuclides present in the bodies of those people
potentially exposed to residual radionuclide from weapon tests and
fallout,
and to assess their present and lifetime dose from external
counting
(WBC)
and internal sources.
Field bioassay missions involving whole-body
and urine
sample collection have,
therefore,
important components of the program.
WBC is used to measure
undetectable by WBC routine methods.
6 refs.
been
Major Descriptors: *CESIUM 137 -- RADIATION DETECTION; *HUMAN POPULATIONS
~~ RADIATION DOSES; *MARSHALL ISLANDS; *PLUTONIUM 239 -~ RADIATION
DETECTION
Descriptors: COBALT 60; POTASSIUM 40; RADIOACTIVITY; STRONTIUM 90; URINE;
WHOLE~BODY COUNTING
Broader Terms: ACTINIDE ISOTOPES; ACTINIDE NUCLEI; ALKA; ALKALI METAL
ISOTOPES; ALKALINE EARTH ISOTOPES; ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA
DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-PLUS DECAY
RADIOISOTOPES; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOLOGICAL WASTES; BODY FLUIDS;
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{gamma}-emitters, such as {sup 40}K, {sup 60}Co and {sup 137}Cs,
present in individuals. Urine samples are used to measure {alpha} and
{beta}-emitting nuclides, such as {sup 239}Pu and {sup 90}Sr, that are