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Radiation Exposure from Pacific Nuclear Tests
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015043196859 |
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Assessment of the Scientific Information for the Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program
Author | : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Radiation Effects Research,Committee to Assess the Scientific Information for the Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program |
Publsiher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 431 |
Release | : 2005-10-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780309096102 |
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The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) was set up by Congress in 1990 to compensate people who have been diagnosed with specified cancers and chronic diseases that could have resulted from exposure to nuclear-weapons tests at various U.S. test sites. Eligible claimants include civilian onsite participants, downwinders who lived in areas currently designated by RECA, and uranium workers and ore transporters who meet specified residence or exposure criteria. The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), which oversees the screening, education, and referral services program for RECA populations, asked the National Academies to review its program and assess whether new scientific information could be used to improve its program and determine if additional populations or geographic areas should be covered under RECA. The report recommends Congress should establish a new science-based process using a method called "probability of causation/assigned share" (PC/AS) to determine eligibility for compensation. Because fallout may have been higher for people outside RECA-designated areas, the new PC/AS process should apply to all residents of the continental US, Alaska, Hawaii, and overseas US territories who have been diagnosed with specific RECA-compensable diseases and who may have been exposed, even in utero, to radiation from U.S. nuclear-weapons testing fallout. However, because the risks of radiation-induced disease are generally low at the exposure levels of concern in RECA populations, in most cases it is unlikely that exposure to radioactive fallout was a substantial contributing cause of cancer.
Exposure of the American People to Iodine 131 from Nevada Nuclear Bomb Tests
Author | : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Institute of Medicine,Commission on Life Sciences,Committee on Exposure of the American People to I-131 from the Nevada Atomic Bomb Tests,Committee on Thyroid Screening Related to I-131 Exposure |
Publsiher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 1999-06-17 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780309061759 |
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In 1997, after more than a decade of research, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) released a report which provided their assessment of radiation exposures that Americans may have received from radioactive iodine released from the atomic bomb tests conducted in Nevada during the 1950s and early 1960s. This book provides an evaluation of the soundness of the methodology used by the NCI study to estimate: Past radiation doses. Possible health consequences of exposure to iodine-131. Implications for clinical practice. Possible public health strategiesâ€"such as systematic screening for thyroid cancerâ€"to respond to the exposures. In addition, the book provides an evaluation of the NCI estimates of the number of thyroid cancers that might result from the nuclear testing program and provides guidance on approaches the U.S. government might use to communicate with the public about Iodine-131 exposures and health risks.
Consequential Damages of Nuclear War
Author | : Barbara Rose Johnston,Holly M Barker |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2020-03-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781315431796 |
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The hydrogen test-bomb Bravo, dropped on the Marshall Islands in 1954, had enormous consequences for the Rongelap people. Anthropologists Barbara Rose Johnston and Holly Barker provide incontrovertible evidence of physical and financial damages to individuals and cultural and psycho-social damages to the community through use of declassified government documents, oral histories and ethnographic research, conducted with the Marshallese community within a unique collaborative framework. Their work helped produce a $1 billion award by the Nuclear Claims Tribunal and raises issues of bioethics, government secrecy, human rights, military testing, and academic activism. The report, reproduced here with accompanying materials, should be read by everyone concerned with the effects of nuclear war and is an essential text for courses in history, environmental studies, bioethics, human rights, and related subjects.
Health Aspects of Nuclear Weapons Testing
Author | : Gordon M. Dunning,U.S. Atomic Energy Commission |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Nuclear weapons |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105038376419 |
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This pamphlet is concerned principally with the health aspects of nuclear weapons testing in the atmosphere. Nothing new is contained herein and much has been omitted for brevity. The pamphlet does attempt to bring together the highlights of a large body of information and thus in some small way may assist in further enlightenment of a complex subject.
Adverse Reproductive Outcomes in Families of Atomic Veterans
Author | : Institute of Medicine,Committee to Study the Feasibility of, and Need for, Epidemiologic Studies of Adverse Reproductive Outcomes in the Families of Atomic Veterans |
Publsiher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 107 |
Release | : 1995-07-17 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780309176118 |
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Over the past several decades, public concern over exposure to ionizing radiation has increased. This concern has manifested itself in different ways depending on the perception of risk to different individuals and different groups and the circumstances of their exposure. One such group are those U.S. servicemen (the "Atomic Veterans" who participated in the atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons at the Nevada Test Site or in the Pacific Proving Grounds, who served with occupation forces in or near Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or who were prisoners of war in or near those cities at the time of, or shortly after, the atomic bombings. This book addresses the feasibility of conducting an epidemiologic study to determine if there is an increased risk of adverse reproductive outcomes in the spouses, children, and grandchildren of the Atomic Veterans.
Radioactive Contamination of Certain Areas in the Pacific Ocean from Nuclear Tests
Author | : Gordon M Dunning |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Nuclear weapons |
ISBN | : UCSD:31822011790482 |
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Health Aspects of Nuclear Weapons Testing
Author | : U.S. Atomic Energy Commission |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Nuclear weapons |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105007602142 |
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