Letter of Notification to Participants
(Over-5-rem Group)
Date
Name
Address
City,
Dear
State
Zip Code
(Name of Participant):
The Department of Defense (DoD)
is presently reviewing the
radiation exposure record of DoD personnel who took part
in atmospheric nuclear weapons testing,
1945-1962.
The
purposes of this program are to assist -individuals involved
and to obtain radiation exposure data,
so that detailed
research can be conducted to determine if there is any
correlation between exposure to low-level external ionizing
radiation and subsequent incidence of certain diseases.
Our records and current research indicate that radiation
exposures to the approximately 250,000 DoD test participants
The average dosage was on the order of
about half a rem
(a rem is a unit of radiation dase in man),
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were quite low.
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