Broader Terms: ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; RADIATION EFFECTS; VERTEBRATES; WEAPONS Subject Categories: 450200* -- Military Technology, Weaponry, & National Defense -- Nuclear Explosions & Explosives 560100 -- Biomedical Sciences, Applied Studies -~ Radiation Effects 10/5/352 (Item 52 from file: 103) 03115948 INS-91-009204; EDB-91-053382 . , Title: Contemporary distributions of Cs-137 in Marshall Islands soils Author(s): Hamilton, T.; Rosenstock, L. (Univ. of Washington, Seattle (USA)); Greenhouse, N.A. Title: The 1989 international chemical congress of Pacific Basin Societies: Abstracts of papers, Parts I and II Conference Title: PACIFICHEM '89: international chemical congress of Pacific Basin Societies Conference Location: Honolulu, HI (USA) Conference Date: 17-22 Dec 1989 Publisher: Washington, DC (US) American Chemical Society Publication Date: Report Number(s): 1989 p 716-717, Paper INOR 717 (1700 p) CONF -891206-- Document Type: Analytic of a Book; Conference Literature Language: In English Journal Announcement: EDB9109 Subfile: ETD (Energy Technology Data Exchange); INS (US Atomindex input). JMT (DOE contractor) US DOE Project/NonDOE Project: NP Country of Origin: United States Country of Publication: United States Abstract: Atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons ranging from tens of kT to 15 MT of TNT were conducted by the United States at two sites in the northern Marshall Islands. The test areas are now parts of the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Resolutions of health related problems or property damage resulting from the weapons tests were assumed by a Nuclear Claims Tribunal which was funded for this purpose. This paper describes the results of a survey conducted in 1988 which was designed to determine whether a potential connection exists between local fallout and the incidence of radiogenic disease among Marshallese residents of islands in the greater vicinity of the two test areas. Soil samples were collected from two southern atolls as controls, and from five northern sites to look for higher cesium-137 levels which may have been contributed by tropospheric fallout from the weapons tests. Major Descriptors: *CESIUM 137 -- ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; *MARSHALL ISLANDS -- SOIL CHEMISTRY Descriptors: BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; HEALTH HAZARDS; LOCAL FALLOUT; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; PERFORMANCE TESTING Broader Terms: ALKALI METAL ISOTOPES; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; CESIUM ISOTOPES; CHEMISTRY; FALLOUT; HAZARDS; ISLANDS; ISOTOPES; MICRONESIA; NUCLEI; OCEANIA; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIOISOTOPES; TESTING; WEAPONS; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES Subject Categories: 540230* -- Environment, Terrestrial -- Radioactive Materials Monitoring & Transport -- (1990-) INIS Subject Categories: B3110* -- Radioactive materials monitoring & transport 10/5/353 03115764 (Item 53 from file: 103) EDB-91-053198; NTS-91-012030; ERA-16-015214 Title: Announced United States nuclear tests, Corporate Source: Office of External Affairs Sponsoring Organization: Publication Date: Report Number(s): DOE (Code: Document Type: Report In English 95240039) Las Vegas, USDOE, Washington, DC Jan 1991 (134 p) DOE/NV-209-Rev.11 Order Number: DE91009062 Language: July 1945--December 1990 USDOE Nevada Operations Office, ' 5903692 (USA) NV (USA).