NUCLEI; ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; LEVELS; NUCLEI; RADIOISOTOPES; ROCKS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; STABLE ISOTOPES; STRONTIUM ISOTOPES Subject Categories: 10/5/360 02917953 Title: 580000* -- Geosciences (Item 60 from file: 103) AIX-21-070973; EDB-90-135194; ERA-15-045581 Clusters of health effects associated with radiation around the world (excluding the UK) Author (s) /Editor(s): Rose, K.S.B. Corporate Source: UKABA Harwell Lab. Science Div. (Code: 9050669) Publication Date: Apr 1990 (vp.) Report Number(s): AERE-R-13776 ISBN: t (UK). Environmental and Medical 0-7058-1587-0 Document Type: Report; Numerical Data; Special Availability Language: In English Journal Announcement: EDB9018 Availability: Available from H.M. Stationery Office, London, Distribution: Subfile: ERA Exchange). (Report) :9 (Energy GBN (MF):9 Research ND-000 Abstracts); (United Kingdom US DOE Project/NonDOE Project: NP ETD (Energy Technology Data (sent to DOE from) ) Country of Origin: United Kingdom Country of Publication: United Kingdom Abstract: Several hundred investigations into health effects associated with various sources of radioactivity outside the UK are critically reviewed in 369 summaries in this compilation. Overall 109 statistically significant excesses or deficits (clusters) are identified, 84 positive and 25 negative. Fourteen of these clusters are associated with nuclear power stations. Only two clusters provide good evidence of a causal association, they are the thyroid abnormality and growth retardation clusters among children on Rongelap Island. A third cluster of childhood leukaemia in high fallout areas of southwest Utah may also be causal and a survey of similar high fallout areas in northern Utah seems merited. Most of the other 106 clusters come from surveys that have either severe limitations in their methodology or contain internal contradictory evidence. This comment applies particularly to all 14 clusters identified around nuclear power stations. The same conclusion is not necessarily true for a few of the clusters associated with relatively high levels of natural background radiation; although it is likely that these too are not caused by radiation, further study to confirm or deny this would be helpful. It is concluded that there is no reliable evidence from countries outside Major Descriptors: *ENDOCRINE DISEASES -- DISEASE INCIDENCE; *ENDOCRINE DISEASES -- EPIDEMIOLOGY; *LEUKEMIA -- DISEASE INCIDENCE; *LEUKEMIA -EPIDEMIOLOGY; *NUCLEAR FACILITIES -- RADIATION HAZARDS; *REACTORS -~ RADIATION HAZARDS Descriptors: COMPILED DATA; GROWTH; HEALTH HAZARDS; INHIBITION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RADIOACTIVITY; REVIEWS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; THYROID Broader Terms: BODY; DATA; DISEASES; DISTRIBUTION; DOCUMENT TYPES; ENDOCRINE GLANDS; GLANDS; HAZARDS; HEALTH HAZARDS; HEMIC DISEASES; IMMUNE SYSTEM DISEASES; INFORMATION; NEOPLASMS; NUMERICAL DATA; ORGANS Subject Categories: 560151* -- Radiation Effects on Animals -- Man 220500 -- Nuclear Reactor Technology -- Environmental Aspects 570000 -- Health & Safety 10/5/361 02865709 (Item 61 from file: 103) AIX-21-043229; EDB-90-082947 Title: Uncertainties in estimating dose-effects relationships under emergency Author(s): (Hiroshima, Nishiwaki, Y¥. Nagasaki 1945, (IABA, Vienna Bikini 1954) (Australia). Div of Nuclear Safety) 9003646 the UK of clusters being caused by nuclear power stations. This includes the area close to the only major nuclear fuel reprogessing plant outside Britain at Cap La Hague..