Subject Codes
10/5/209
109253
(NSA):
BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
(Item 209 from file:
NSA-13-015907
109)
EFFECTS OF FALLOUT RADIATION ON A HUMAN POPULATION
Conard, R.A.; Robertson, J.S.; Wolins, W.; Meyer, L.M.; Sutow, PW;
Hechter, H.
.
,
Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, N.Y.; South Nassau Communities Hospital,
New York; M.D. Anderson Hospital, Houston, Tex.; Naval Radiological Defense
Lab., San Francisco
‘
Radiation Research
v Suppl. No. 1.
Publication Date: 1959
260-95 p.
Journal Announcement: NSA13
Document Type: Journal Article
Language: English
The status of 82 Marshallese people from Rongelap Atoll is reviewed four
years after their accidental exposure to significant amounts of fall-out
radiation. The accident occurred after the detonation of a large
thermonuclear device during experiments at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific
Proving Grounds in March 1954. A description of the clinical status is
preceded by a brief summary of the psst findings. At four years
postexposure, the only remaining evidences of the initial radiation
exposure are the lag in complete recovery of certain peripheral blood
elements to the levels of a compsrison population, the remaining residua of
the heta-ray lesions of the skin,
and evidence of low levels of
radioisotopes absorbed internally. Late effects of radiation exposure were
not seen.
20 references. (C.H.)
Descriptors:
ACCIDENTS; BETA PARTICLES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; BIKINI; BLOOD.
CELLS; BODY; FALLOUT; MAN; MARSHALLESE; MEDICINE; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR
EXPLOSIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; POPULATIONS; QUANTITY RATIO; RADIATION DOSES;
RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOISOTOPES; SKIN; THERMONUCLEAR
DEVICES
Subject Codes
10/5/210
106534
(NSA):
BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
(Item 210 from file:
NSA-13-013185
109)
PLANTS AND FALL-OUT
Fosberg, F.R.
National Research Council,
Nature
v 183.
Publication Date:
Washington,
(1959) May 23
Journal Announcement: NSA13
Document Type: Journal Article
D.C.
1448 p.
Language: English
Observations are presented on the condition of vegetation in the area of
the Marshall Islands affected by fall-out from the 1954 Bikini hydrogen
bomb test. Abnormal or pathological conditions were observed in a number of
plant species,
inereasing from islet to islet in the same order a$ the
increase in fall-out intensity. Defoliation and die-back of twigs were
conspicuous in two species on Eniwetok Islet.
(C.H.)
Descriptors:
BIKINI; DISTRIBUTION; FALLOUT; ISLANDS; LEAVES; MARSHALL
ISLANDS; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PLANTS; RADIATION EFFECTS;
RADIATION INJURIES; TESTING; TISSUES; VARIATIONS
Subject Codes (NSA): BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
10/5/211
(Item 211 from file: 109)
106484
NSA-13-013135
MEDICAL SURVEY OF RONGELAP PEOPLE, MARCH 1958,
FOUR YEARS AFTER EXPOSURE
TO FALLOUT
Conard, R.A.; Robertson, J.S.; Meyer, L.M.; Sutow, W.W.; Wolins,
Lowrey, A.; Urschel, H.C. Jr.; Barton, J.M.; Goldman, M.; Hechter,
Eicher, M.; Carver, R.K.; Potter, D.W.
Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, N.Y.
Publication Date: May 1959
Primary Report No.: BNL-534
Journal Announcement: NSA13
38 p. 5903599
W.;
H.;