Iodine-131 Fallout from Underground Tests II

Iodine-131 Fallout from Underground Tests II.

In a recent report (1), List, Telegadas, and Ferber take issue with my earlier conclusion (2) that vented underground tests in Nevada were the probable sources for the repeated occurrences of iodine-131 fallout in midwestern United States during May 1962. In doing so they provide no evidence to establish that the underground shots in question were contained, but they suggest that precipitation ...

Radiation Exposure From Iodine 131

self-instructional publications designed to increase the primary care provider’s knowledge of hazardous substances in the environment and to aid in the evaluation of potentially exposed patients. This course is also available on the ATSDR Web site, www.atsdr.cdc. gov/HEC/CSEM/. See page 3 for more information about continuing medical education credits, continuing nursing education units, contin...

"ESTIMATED EXPOSURES AND THYROID DOSES RECEIVED BY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FROM IODINE-131 IN FALLOUT FOLLOWING THE NEVADA ATMOSPHERIC NUCLEAR BOMB TESTS" Statement of

Good morning Senator Specter, Senator Harkin, and Members of the Subcommittee. I am Richard Klausner, Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and today I am presenting to you, for the first time, the completed NCI report estimating thyroid doses of Iodine-131 (I-131) received by Americans as a result of atmospheric nuclear bomb tests conducted at the Nevada Test Site. This study was co...

Iodine-131 and Thyroid Function

Fallout from nuclear tests: health effects in Kazakhstan.