University
(Japan) )
Source: Radiation Protection (Taiyuan)
Coden: FUFAE
ISSN: 1000-8187
(Fushe Fanghu)
v 10:2.
vot
Publication Date: Mar 1990
p 81-90
Document Type: Journal Article
Language: In Chinese
Journal Announcement: EDB9113
Subfile:
ETD (Energy Technology Data Exchange).
(China)
INIS
input ATX)
(non-US Atomindex
US DOE Project/NonDOE Project: NP
Country of Origin: Japan
Country of Publication: China
Abstract: Research activities on distribution and behaviour of transuranium
elements in the environment at the Kanazawa University, Japan, were
presented. Using new developed radiochemical analysis methods and
instruments, and collecting the surface soil samples from various areas
of Japan,
sediments on the bottom of lake and sea,
sea water and those
samples related to the Bikini event happened in 1954, the content of
plutonium isotopes, {sup 241}Am and {sup 237}Np in environmental
sample,
their depth profile variation with time and the relationship
between them with organic materials were studied.
Major Descriptors: *AMERICIUM 241 -- ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS; *AMERICIUM
241 -- RADIATION MONITORING; *NEPTUNIUM 237 -- ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS;
*NEPTUNIUM 237 -- RADIATION MONITORING; *PLUTONIUM ISOTOPES -ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS; *PLUTONIUM ISOTOPES -- RADIATION MONITORING
Descriptors: ACTIVITY LEVELS; JAPAN; RADIOACTIVITY; SEDIMENTS; SOILS; WATER
Broader Terms: ACTINIDE ISOTOPES; ACTINIDE NUCLEI; ALPHA DECAY
RADIOISOTOPES; AMERICIUM ISOTOPES; ASIA; HEAVY NUCLEI; HYDROGEN
COMPOUNDS; ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; MATERIALS;
MONITORING; NANOSEC LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; NEPTUNIUM ISOTOPES; NUCLEI;
ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; RADIOISOTOPES; YEARS LIVING
RADIOISOTOPES
Subject Categories:
655003*
-- Medical Physics -- Dosimetry
10/5/351
(Item 51 from file: 103)
03128046
EDB-91-065481
Title: Bomb tests attack the food chain
Author(s): Ruff, T. (Monash Medical School, Melbourne (Australia) )
Source: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
(USA)
v 46:2.
Coden: BASIA
ISSN: 0096-5243
~
Publication Date: Mar 1990
p 32-34
Document Type: Journal Article
Language: In English
Journal Announcement: EDB9111
Subfile:
ETD (Energy Technology Data Exchange).
US DOE Project/NonDOE Project: NP
JMT
(DOE contractor)
~
military infrastructures and activities that accompany the tests. This
is true for both the Marshall Islands near Bikini and Eniwetok, where
U.S. tests took place, and in French Polynesia, in the area around
Moruroa Atoll where the French government continues to test. Ciguatera
poisoning has a disastrous effect on people who depend on fishing as a
way of life and on fish as the major source of protein. 10 refs.
Major Descriptors: *FISHES -- POISONING; *FOOD CHAINS -- BIOLOGICAL
RADIATION EFFECTS; *NUCLEAR WEAPONS -- TESTING; *OCEANIA -- FOOD CHAINS
90036491
Country of Origin: Australia
Country of Publication: United States
Abstract: Ciguatera poisoning, the most common type of fish poisoning in
the world, has become a major public health problem in some parts of
the South Pacific. This area has always been the site of periodic
outbreaks, especially after severe storms or natural disasters that
damage core reefs. But since World War II it has become evident that
Military activities and major construction projects that wreak havoc on
corals also lead to ciguatera outbreaks. Extraordinarily high rates of
ciguatera poisoning have occurred on the small Pacific islands that
have been used for nuclear tests and on the islands that host the